BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/calender.ics SOURCE;VALUE=URI:https://lectures.london/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALDESC:Public talks and lectures hosted by institutes and universiti es in London on topics including law, art sustainability, philosophy, hist ory, economics and much more TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:37a39ad5-2fec-4492-b477-5cf5a956ae6b SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261007T150000 DTEND:20261007T170000 SUMMARY:Sangama: Coming Together | Film Screening and Discussion LOCATION:King's College London: Bush House\nRoom: SE 1.05\nStrand campus\, 30 Aldwych\, London\, WC2B 4BG URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/sangama-coming-together-film-sc reening-and-discussion CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:038cf2c4-d891-417c-a472-6edee5f33332 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261007T154500 DTEND:20261007T164500 SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture: Professor Sheila Singh LOCATION:King's College London: Guy’s Campus\nRoom: Lecture Theatre 1\, New Hunts HouseGreat Maze Pond\, London SE1 1UL URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/inaugural-lecture-professor-she ila-singh CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5a90f16e-1864-4dc7-9dc8-372de7d7f993 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261007T160000 DTEND:20261007T170000 SUMMARY:What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th C entury LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/what-mathematician CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:76d457e7-59b7-4b0f-8615-16341116c06c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261007T163000 DTEND:20261007T174500 SUMMARY:AI and the Future of Work: Are We Becoming More Like Machines? LOCATION:King's College London: Boland HouseBoland House\, Great Maze Pond \, London\, SE1 9GU URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ai-and-the-future-of-work-are-w e-becoming-more-like-machines CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2899504d-94d2-42e7-9c6d-ca28d1993ed8 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261007T163000 DTEND:20261007T174500 SUMMARY:Sixty-six years on - how can Nigeria escape the fragility trap an d unlock its potential? LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (Wolfson Theat re\, Cheng Kin Ku Building) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 7 October 2026 5.30pm - 6.45pmSpeakerDr Olu FasanDis cussantAanu AdeoyeChairProfessor Milli LakeJoin us for a fireside chat boo k launch that introduces the new book by Olu Fasan\, In The National Inter est: The Road to Nigeria's Political\, Economic and Social Transformation. More than a century after its creation by Britain in 1914 and sixty-six ye ars after independence in 1960\, Nigeria remains a deeply fragile nation: ethnically polarised\, politically unstable\, economically vulnerable and socially fractured.In this chat\, Dr Fasan examines the political\, econom ic and social roots of Nigeria's predicament\, drawing on extensive schola rly policy research and rigorous evidence-based analysis. He argues that N igeria's difficulties are rooted in the country's "birth defects"\, troubl ed historical evolution and path-dependent institutional development\, ref lected in three fundamental failures: weak nationhood\, limited state capa city and insufficient commitment by leaders and citizens to act in the nat ional interest. The book makes the case for a new political and constituti onal settlement and offers thoughtful ideas for national renewal.Timed to coincide with Nigeria's sixty-sixth Independence Anniversary this event pr ovides a timely platform for critical discussion on Nigeria's future and t he prospects for political\, economic and social transformation.Meet our s peakerOlu Fasan is a scholar-practitioner of International Economic Law\, International Political Economy and African Development. He spent nearly 2 0 years with the UK Government\, advising on policy areas such as trade\, regulatory reform\, industrial strategy\, as well as energy and climate ch ange.Dr Fasan holds a Master's degree in International Political Economy f rom the Department of International Relations (IRD) at LSE\, where his PhD in International Economic Law was also jointly supervised. He later retur ned to the IRD as a Visiting Fellow and Guest Teacher\, teaching Economic Diplomacy and the Politics of International Trade.He currently researches African Development with the International Growth Centre\, and writes a we ekly column for Vanguard and BusinessDay\, Nigeria's leading newspapers\, where he comments on politics\, governance and economic reform. He is a me mber of the English Bar and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.Discussa ntAanu Adeoye is a journalist at the Financial Times in London. He was pre viously west Africa correspondent for the FT in Lagos\, where he covered p olitics\, business\, and economics in the Ecowas member states and central African countries. He was Academy Fellow at Chatham House\, where he rese arched Russia-Africa relations. His first book\, Shifting Sands\, about th e geopolitical competition between Russia and the west in Africa will be p ublished in 2028 by Headline (UK) and PublicAffairs (US).ChairMilli Lake i s Professor of International Security in the Department of International R elations at LSE. Her expertise lies in civil wars\, political violence\, s ecurity\, state-building\, rule of law\, governance\, and Sub-Saharan Afri ca. She co-directs the Women's Rights After War project and co-convenes th e Advancing Research on Conflict consortium.More about this eventThe Depar tment of International Relations (@LSEIRDept) at LSE is now in it's 99th y ear - one of the oldest as well as largest IR departments in the world\, w ith a truly international reputation. Throughout 2027 we will celebrate ou r centenary with a series of events and initiatives involving faculty\, st udents\, alumni and the public. 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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-relations/events/2026/si xty-six-years-on-how-can-nigeria-escape-the-fragility-trap-and-unlock-its- potential CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:311bb4e0-7d71-4ebd-aca6-f1a798b2e677 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261007T163000 DTEND:20261007T173000 SUMMARY:Sculpting light in space and time with metamaterials LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre 1\, Blackett Building DESCRIPTION:What happens when we manipulate light not just in space\, but in time? Discover how light waves from the past and future can interact wi th Professor Riccardo Sapienza\, Professor of Physics. \nPlease register t o attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance is available here. \nWe look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 7 October!\nImperial I naugurals are term-time lectures that celebrate our newest Professors\, recognising their academic journey and showcasing their research.\nAbstrac t\nLight powers the global internet\, enables deep-space and medical imagi ng\, and sustains life on Earth. But how do we actually control the flow of something so fast and intangible? For centuries\, traditional optics r elied on the simple curved surfaces of glass lenses. Today\, the modern sc ience of light is driven by metamaterials\, nanostructured materials with optical properties not found in nature\, which have already given us ultra -thin lenses\, miniaturized photonic devices\, and unconventional lasers t hat perform artificial-intelligence computations. \nBut what happens when we manipulate light not just in space\, but in time? Can we make light wa ves from the past and the future interact? The answer\, surprisingly\, is yes. \nIn this lecture\, Riccardo Sapienza will trace our first steps tow ard spatio-temporal control of light\, including our recent experiments  demonstrating double-slit diffraction in time and the scattering of light from superluminal modulations (synthetic\, of course\, so relativity is n ot broken!). He will close by looking ahead to what intertwining space and time could unlock: from dynamic holograms to entirely new paradigms for a nalogue computing. \nBiography\n\nRiccardo Sapienza is Professor of Physi cs and Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperi al College London\, where he is also Joint Director of the Centre for Pl asmonics and Metamaterials. His research explores how light interacts wit h nanostructured matter\, spanning optical metamaterials\, unconventional lasing\, and neuromorphic photonic computing. He is co-founder and co-CTO of the spin-out RAYD Technologies\, which translates this research into p ractice. \n\n\n \n\n\nHe earned his PhD jointly from the Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence and the École Normale Supérieu re (ENS) in Paris\, and held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Materials Science (ICMM-CSIC) in Madrid and ICFO – the Institute of Phot onic Sciences in Barcelona. He was on the faculty of King’s College Lond on before joining Imperial in 2017. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212233/sculpting-light-in- space-and-time-with-metamaterials/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:789b21ee-4727-42b1-8feb-4c9935a116d3 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261007T173000 DTEND:20261007T190000 SUMMARY:Can we talk to animals? LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Sh eikh Zayed Theatre\, Cheng Kin Ku Building) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 7 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerDr Julie ElieDiscu ssantsDr Irene PepperbergProfessor Yossi YovelChairProfessor Jonathan Birc hIn this special event\, the 2026 winner of the Coller Dolittle Prize Juli e Elie\, will present her work on decoding the language of zebra finches.T his will be followed by a panel discussion\, exploring cutting‑edge deve lopments in understanding animal cognition\, emotion and welfare\, and con sidering their implications for science\, ethics and policy.Meet our speak ers and chairJulie Elie is an Associate Project Scientist at University of California\, Berkeley. Her research examines communication sounds and the neural control of vocal production and perception\, focussed on zebra fin ches and Egyptian fruit bats. She holds a Bachelor and Master in Molecular and Cell Biology from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and completed her PhD in Saint Etienne.Irene Pepperberg is a Research Professor at Boston Un iversity and has authored nearly 200 peer‑reviewed publications\, The Al ex Studies and the bestseller Alex & Me. She has received Guggenheim\, Sel by and Radcliffe Fellowships\, the Christopher Clavius Award and the 2020 Comparative Cognition Society Research Award. For almost 50 years\, she ha s trained Grey parrots to use English speech referentially and employed th is to examine their intelligence.Yossi Yovel is a Professor in the Departm ent of Zoology at Tel-Aviv University since 2011. He was trained as an und ergrad in physics and biology. He received a masters in Neurobiology from Tel-Aviv University and a PhD in biology from Tuebingen University in Germ any.Jonathan Birch is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the new Je remy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE. In 2021\, he led a "Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustacea ns" that led to invertebrate animals including octopuses\, crabs and lobst ers being included in the UK government's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act. In 2024\, he published The Edge of Sentience: risk and precaution in human s\, other animals\, and AI\, an Open Access book.More about this eventJoin us on campus or register to watch the event online at LSE Live. LSE Live is the home for our live streams\, allowing you to tune in and join the gl obal debate at LSE\, wherever you are in the world. If you can't attend li ve\, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube ch annel.The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience is dedicated to improv ing the lives of non-human animals through interdisciplinary\, impact-orie nted research across the natural sciences\, social sciences and humanities . It is a research unit within LSE Philosophy\, with this event being part of the departmental “Philosophy Live” series.Hosted by the Jeremy Col ler Foundation in partnership with Tel-Aviv University\, the Coller Dolitt le Prize celebrates outstanding research advancing the science of animal s entience. The Prize is a multi-year challenge with an annual award recogni sing significant scientific research that supports the aim of interspecies communication.Hashtag for this event: #LSEEventsAny questions?If you have a query see our Events FAQ or take a look at the information below.You can also contact us at events@lse.ac.uk.LSE Blogs Many speakers at LSE eve nts also write for LSE Blogs\, which present research and critical comment ary accessibly for a public audience. 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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/talk-to-the-animals CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d20acefd-acf6-47d4-8c06-7383f1397ea4 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261008T160000 DTEND:20261008T190000 SUMMARY:Prize Money in Nelson’s Navy LOCATION:King's College London: King's Building\nRoom: Dockrill Room (KIN 628)\nStrand Campus\, Strand\, London\, WC2R 2LS URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/prize-money-in-nelsons-navy CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a8339d54-0000-471f-8ed6-9ec8ad4f99c3 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261008T170000 DTEND:20261008T180000 SUMMARY:In Conversation: Raymond Fung and Malcolm McNeill on 留白 – Be yond Emptiness LOCATION:SOAS: DLT\, SOAS URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/conversation-raymond-fung -and-malcolm-mcneill-liubai-beyond-emptiness CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bf1a6a18-ef07-4cb3-a485-5f77153875d2 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261008T170000 DTEND:20261008T183000 SUMMARY:Moving Caste: Fish\, Labor\, and Bicycles in Kolkata LOCATION:King's College London: Bush House\nRoom: SE 2.10\nStrand campus\, 30 Aldwych\, London\, WC2B 4BG URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/moving-caste-fish-labor-and-bic ycles-in-kolkata CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1b8682e0-5c4c-4a84-a69f-f4f3618edff9 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261008T173000 DTEND:20261008T190000 SUMMARY:'No future' for transatlantic relations? Reflections in advance of the US mid-term elections LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (PA N.G.01\, Pankhurst House\, Clement's Inn) DESCRIPTION:Thursday 8 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerKlaus WelleChairPro fessor Chris AndersonThe transatlantic partnership provided security for E urope for 80 years. Yet today\, the United States regards Europe as only i ts fourth security priority. Economically strained by Trump’s tariffs an d challenged by renewed claims on Greenland\, European trust in the United States has fallen to an all-time low. With crucial midterm elections on t he horizon\, an important question emerges: what might a renewed partnersh ip of equals look like?Meet our speaker and chairKlaus Welle is Visiting P rofessor in Practice at the LSE European Institute. He was previously Secr etary General of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2022. His previous r oles in Brussels include serving as chief of staff to the President of the European Parliament\, as Director General for EU Internal Policies in the Parliament's administration\, and as Secretary General successively of th e European People's Party (EPP) transnational political party and of the E PP political group in the European Parliament.Chris Anderson is the Ralf D ahrendorf Professor of European Politics and Society. A student of politic al behaviour\, Anderson’s research has centred on the micro-foundations of markets and democracy. Past research projects have investigated the pop ularity of governments\, the dynamics of public opinion about European int egration\, and people’s satisfaction with democracy. In other streams of research\, he has investigated the connection between welfare states and citizen behaviour and the political attitudes and behaviours of immigrants in Europe.More about this eventEstablished in 1991\, the LSE European Ins titute is a world-leading centre for the study of Europe in its global con text. With eight master’s degrees and a doctoral programme\, a vibrant r esearch community\, and a world-leading public events programme\, our work spans Political Economy\, Politics & Policy\, Culture & Society\, and Mig ration.Follow us: Instagram\, LinkedIn\, Bluesky\, Twitter\, YouTube\, and Soundcloud.Join our mailing list to receive news about EI events.Any ques tions?Contact us at ei.events@lse.ac.uk.From time to time there are change s to event details so we strongly recommend that if you plan to attend thi s event you check back on this listing on the day of the event.Whilst we a re hosting this listing\, LSE Events does not take responsibility for the running and administration of this event. While we take responsible measur es to ensure that accurate information is given here this event is ultimat ely the responsibility of the organisation presenting the event.LSE holds a wide range of events\, covering many of the most controversial issues of the day\, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence . The views expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the positio n or views of the London School of Economics and Political Science. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/events/2026-27/no-f uture-for-transatlantic-relations-reflections-in-advance-of-the-us-mid-ter m-elections CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6fa88133-2167-4362-bd3c-d7c550def132 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261008T173000 DTEND:20261008T183000 SUMMARY:In conversation with Reni Eddo-Lodge LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Sh eikh Zayed Theatre\, Cheng Kin Ku Building) DESCRIPTION:Thursday 8 October 2026 6.30pm - 7.30pmSpeakerReni Eddo-LodgeC hairProfessor Larry KramerJoin us this Black History Month for a thought-p rovoking conversation between acclaimed author and broadcaster Reni Eddo-L odge and LSE President Larry Kramer. This special event will explore quest ions of race\, identity\, history and society\, and consider how the legac ies of the past continue to shape the world we live in today.Reni Eddo-Lod ge\, author of the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race\, will share her perspectives on race and representation. The conversation promises to be an engaging and illuminating opportunity to li sten\, question and reflect. All are warmly invited to join us for this sp ecial Black History Month event.Meet our speaker and chairReni Eddo-Lodge is a journalist\, author\, and podcaster. Her debut nonfiction book\, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race\, was published in June 2017 to critical acclaim and spent more than 52 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller list. In 2020\, she made history by becoming the first Black B ritish author to have written the number one selling book in the UK book c harts.A Sunday Times\, New York Times and Der Spiegel bestseller\, Why I ’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race won the 2018 Jhalak Priz e\, the 2018 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing\, and a 2018 Bri tish Book Award for Narrative Non-Fiction. A 2018 public poll by Academic Book Week named it the most influential book written by a woman. Her podca st\, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge\, premiered in March 2018 and was cho sen as one of the best podcasts of the year by Apple Podcasts\, Spotify\, Harper’s Bazaar UK\, The Guardian\, British GQ\, and Wired UK.In Decembe r 2024\, Reni launched Monument Books\, a publishing imprint in collaborat ion with HarperCollins’ 4th Estate\, with the mission to publish revelat ory\, original\, and agenda-setting writing. As Editor-at-large\, she shap es the vision of the imprint\, curating works that explore historical\, pr esent-day\, and future issues\; champion distinctive writers\; and foster storytelling that informs\, inspires\, and challenges. The imprint release s three titles per year spanning non-fiction\, as well as select fiction a nd classics.Larry Kramer has been President and Vice Chancellor of LSE sin ce April 2024. A constitutional scholar\, university administrator\, and p hilanthropic leader\, he was previously the President of the William and F lora Hewlett Foundation and the Dean of Stanford Law School.More about thi s eventJoin us on campus or register to watch the event online at LSE Live . LSE Live is the home for our live streams\, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE\, wherever you are in the world. If you can' t attend live\, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube channel.This event celebrates Black History Month and is hosted i n partnership with the London School of Economics Students' Union. The eve nt is organised in partnership with the International Inequalities Institu te and the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity.This event is s upported by the Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion Division at LSE.Hashtag f or this event: #LSEEventsAny questions?If you have a query see our Events FAQ or take a look at the information below.You can also contact us at e vents@lse.ac.uk.LSE Blogs Many speakers at LSE events also write for LSE B logs\, which present research and critical commentary accessibly for a pub lic audience. 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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/black-history-month CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:34f29ddc-d999-4767-adea-e1535c13b1a6 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261008T180000 DTEND:20261008T191500 SUMMARY:Dyson School of Design Engineering Commencement Lecture 2026 LOCATION:Imperial College: LT200\, City and Guilds Building DESCRIPTION:For this year’s Commencement Lecture\, Dyson School of Desig n Engineering is excited to welcome John Maeda – one of the most influen tial voices at the intersection of design and technology – who will give a talk titled “Design and Engineering Are the Same Job Now”.\n \nPro gramme\n18.30 – Arrivals and registration\n19.00 – Welcome Address\n19 .10 – Commencement Lecture\n19.55 – Q&A Session\n20.15 – Drinks Rece ption\n \nAbout the Talk\nDesign and Engineering Are the Same Job Now\nFo r most of the last century\, someone drew the thing and someone else made it work. That division of labor produced much of the world around us. But the era of the creative genius up front and the engineers in the back is c oming to an end.\nI’ve spent thirty years working on both sides of that divide\, first writing about simplicity when designing software was still a novelty\, then arguing that designers would need to learn how to speak m achine for a computational age.\nNow the machine speaks our language. It c an design almost anything we ask for\, and increasingly do the engineering required to make it real. That changes what is valuable about both discip lines.\nThere has never been a better time to be a design engineer\, and n ever a worse time to practice design or engineering as if they were still separate jobs. This talk explores what happens when that boundary disappea rs\, and what the next generation of design engineering might become.\nSpe aker’s Biography\nJohn Maeda – American technologist. Product experien ce leader across consumer and enterprise. Early catalyst for generative ar t and computational design for commercial applications across Web2 and Web 3. First recipient of White House’s National Design Award for algorithmi cally-generated visualizations informed by data + AI. Noted book author\, online influencer\, and investor in diverse startups.\nFormerly chief tech nology officer of Everbridge\, Sonos board of directors\, Wieden+Kennedy b oard of directors\, Kleiner Perkins partner\, MIT Media Lab data visualiza tion lead\, Automattic head of design + inclusion\, Publicis Sapient execu tive vice president and chief experience officer\, and 16th president/ceo of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).\nAuthor of five books including a gentle intro to AI/ML “How To Speak Machine” and the tech bestseller of 2006 “Laws of Simplicity.” Writings\, interviews\, or talks include WSJ\, NYT\, TED\, BBC\, WEF\, COP\, CNN\, The Economist\, Forbes\, USA To day\, Fortune\, Fast Company\, Esquire. Honors include three honorary doct orate degrees\, TIME Best Twitter 140\, White House National Design Award\ , Fast Company Masters of Innovation\, LinkedIn Top 10 US Influencer\, Esq uire 75 Most Influential of the 21st Century\, and Tribeca Film Festival D isruptor Award for launching the STEM to STEAM movement in the US.\nImport ant Information\nPlease note that due to capacity limitations\, some atten dees may be asked to watch the lecture from the overflow room. Seats in th e main venue will be allocated on a first come\, first served basis. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212436/dyson-school-of-des ign-engineering-commencement-lecture-2026/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bf466fa8-487f-415f-b575-1df389119e0e SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261009T180000 DTEND:20261010T190000 SUMMARY:Elders\, 2046: For Living and Dying Otherwise LOCATION:Wellcome Collection: The Forum URL;VALUE=URI:https://wellcomecollection.org/events/apkySRIAACoAXxO6 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:82085163-69e1-4985-8726-ab3a9ba53292 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261009T180000 DTEND:20261009T200000 SUMMARY:Sylvia Wynter Lecture: Onyeka Igwe and Alexander G. Weheliye LOCATION:King's College London: Strand Campus\nRoom: Nash Lecture TheatreS trand\, London\, WC2R 2LS URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-sylvia-wynter-lecture-onyek a-igwe-and-alexander-g.-weheliye CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9d7cbfcb-24f4-4029-80fa-4ebdb2e76678 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261010T090000 DTEND:20261010T181500 SUMMARY:Wo+Men’s Leadership Conference 2026: Inclusive leadership in the age of AI LOCATION:Cambridge University: Judge Business School DESCRIPTION:This year’s conference programme includes: Keynote Speakers: - Dame Menna Rawlings DCMG CVO\, President\, Queens’ College\, Universi ty of Cambridge - Pinky Lilani CBE DL\, Founder & Chair\, Women of the Fut ure Programme Panels on: - Artificial Intelligence: exploring how AI is re shaping power\, work and leadership\, and what it means for women to move from representation to real influence over AI systems. - Allyship: explori ng the importance of allyship and how it can help ensure inclusive leaders hip in the age of AI. Workshop: - A thinking environment workshop by Victo ria Higgins\, Founder\, Beyond the Noise In conversation speakers: - Jane Hamilton\, The Times Appointments Editor\, News UK - Julie Zhou\, Columnis t\, Financial Times There will be opportunities throughout the day to buil d your network by connecting with industry leaders and peers\, including a n early evening drinks reception. This is always a sell-out conference and one of the flagship events of Cambridge Judge Business School. Open to al l. Subsidised rates* available for University of Cambridge community: Stud ents (£15)\, Staff (£35)\, Alumni (£35) *Ticket price includes all conf erence sessions\, refreshments\, lunch and an early evening drinks recepti on. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=c3875007 -5944-4c1b-aaf2-252c0da9cefe CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a5544390-02aa-4e39-a378-f1a9db01cb76 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261010T154500 DTEND:20261010T173000 SUMMARY:Cambridge Poetry Festival Lightning Talks LOCATION:Cambridge University: Anglia Ruskin University DESCRIPTION:oin us for an afternoon of quickfire talks on a whole host of poetry-related topics! The event will consist of a series of 10 minute pre sentations\, followed by questions and discussion. Speakers Prolific but U npublished by Hannah Chapman Hannah Chapman is a writer specialising in gr aphic narratives and critical biography. Her most recent essay “Casting Mr Collins: Or How a Zombie Film Returned Us to the Novel\,” co-authored with Lauren Burke\, appeared in Austen after 200: New Reading Spaces (Pal grave\, 2022). Why ain’t poetry dead yet? by Dan Leighton By all rights\ , poetry should have disappeared. We barely teach it in schools. It is see n as hard\, and difficult\, and inaccessible. Sales are\, essentially\, no n-existent. And yet\, it is having a new-form revival on social media plat forms. What does good poetry criticism look like? by Jon Stone Jon Stone i s a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University and an editor at Sidekick Books. His poetry has previously won a Society of Auth ors Eric Gregory Award\, the Poetry London Prize (twice) and the Sarabande International Chapbook Prize. His latest book is Instar Hotel (Sarabande\ , 2026). He has also published a monograph\, Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Video Games (DeGruyter\, 2022). Francisco Javier Guerrero Cano and the Poetry of Sickness by James Womack James Womack is a Cambridge-bas ed writer\, translator and educator. His poetry collections are Misprint ( 2012)\, On Trust: A Book of Lies (2017)\, Homunculus (2020) and Why Are Yo u Shouting? (2024). URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=97b02489 -cc4b-4e24-b3d9-16abc0f6f0d4 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3672da37-3024-46fd-8890-de94bd5fca88 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261010T183000 DTEND:20261010T203000 SUMMARY:Film Poetry Screening & International Poetry Readings LOCATION:Cambridge University: Anglia Ruskin University DESCRIPTION:First Half We're thrilled to be showing a selection of film po ems With films by: Olive Mills Mimi Thompson Katherine Stockton Peter Whit tenberger Daisy Thurston-Gent Catching Shadows Emma Gant C. Moss Collectiv e Janet Lees Jo Gifford Second Half Readings by Athambile Masola\, and Ma Yongbo and his co-translator\, Helen Pletts Athambile Masola Athambile Mas ola is a poet\, teacher and researcher who grew up in East London and curr ently teaches at the University of Cape Town. A Mandela Rhodes Scholar\, s he researches the literary careers of historically ignored black women wri ters and is the founder of Asinakuthula Collective. Her debut collection o f poems\, Ilifa\, was published in isiXhosa by uHlanga in 2021\, and subse quently won the HSS Award for Poetry in 2022. Ma Yongbo & Helen Pletts Ma Yongbo has published over eighty original works and translations since 198 6 including 9 poetry collections. Ma Yongbo’s complete Chinese translati on of Moby Dick has sold over 600\,000 copies. The Collected Poems of Ma Y ongbo (four volumes\, Eastern Publishing Centre\, 2024) comprising 1178 po ems\, celebrate 40 years of writing poetry. He teaches at Nanjing Universi ty of Science and Technology. Helen Pletts is the UK collaborative co-tran slator of Ma Yongbo\, her official Chinese translator. She is a committee member of CB1 Poetry\, the established monthly poetry reading event in cen tral Cambridge UK\, which has organised poetry readings for many years. Be sides Chinese\, her work has been translated into Bangla\, Greek\, Vietnam ese\, Serbian\, Korean\, Arabic\, Italian\, Albanian\, Romanian and Spanis h. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=7adccb05 -88c3-4254-8adb-e2288e2a48b6 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fb6f7ecb-275f-4ee6-b9c3-0e7df6ca666b SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261011T133000 DTEND:20261011T151500 SUMMARY:British Centre for Literary Translation: Poetry Translation Panel LOCATION:Cambridge University: Pembroke College DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about how a poem moves from one language to an other? What exactly get 'lost' in translation? Our expert panel of poetry translators\, chaired by poetry translator and BCLT director Cecilia Rossi \, discuss their work\, process\, and all things translation. Our panelist s will be the translators Juana Adcock\, Astrid Alben\, and Harriet Trusco tt. You can find out more information about the panelists and grab your ti ckets on our website! This event is being run by the Cambridge Poetry Fest ival in collaboration with the BCLT based at UEA. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=6a8f78e9 -f54c-401d-b118-103e157b7cbe CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:986abc1d-51d6-454c-b956-594facf3e6d0 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261011T140000 DTEND:20261011T160000 SUMMARY:GLOBAL CULTURES: THAYAKAM / MOTHERLAND 11 OCT 2026 LOCATION:Cambridge University: West Court Jesus College DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to invite you to a UK Premiere screening of thayakam/motherland\, followed by a Q&A with the director Amita Arudpragas am. Tickets are available below. About thayakam/motherland (12A) 76m Direc ted by: Amita Arudpragasam Tamil/English with English subtitles thayakam/m otherland is a character-led documentary that follows a disillusioned envi ronmentalist as he moves across Sri Lanka’s arid\, poorly industrialised Northern province\, trying to understand the many environmental and clima te crises plaguing his motherland. In a fragile\, war-impacted region—st ill the site of ongoing ethnic conflict—the environmentalist becomes emb roiled in a struggle for life and land. In an era of record-breaking globa l temperatures and soaring carbon emissions\, Sri Lanka consistently ranks among the top ten most climate-vulnerable nations in the world. It was fo r this soil\, and the ability to govern over it\, that countless men and w omen would ?ght and die in a 26-year-long armed struggle. Now that same so il is being threatened by the climate emergency and extractive development . Centred on climate hotspots in the war-impacted North of Sri Lanka\, tha yakam/motherland is a visual ethnography exploring the relationship betwee n people\, land\, and climate. About Amita Arudpragasam Amita is an interd isciplinary public policy analyst from Jaffna based in Colombo\, Sri Lanka . Her work lies at the intersections of economics\, politics\, gender\, an d ethnic conflict. She directed and produced thayakam/motherland\, a featu re documentary on the climate and environmental emergency in the North of Sri Lanka and is writing a series of articles on the same themes as a 2025 Open Society Fellow. Amita completed her BA in English Literature at Prin ceton University and her MPP at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=82899549 -b2fe-4ec7-a0cd-34e5a275ef28 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:291b2920-5463-49bd-a700-95b1d646e935 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261012T153000 DTEND:20261012T170000 SUMMARY:Driving climate resilience with data and AI LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (Vera Anstey R oom\, Old Building) DESCRIPTION:Monday 12 October 2026 4.30pm - 6pmSpeakersDr Parag KhannaShef ali KhannaChairProfessor Jonathan PershingCan artificial intelligence help societies adapt to an increasingly uncertain climate future? As AI transf orms how we reduce emissions\, attention is turning to how it can support climate resilience and adaptation.Register to attend hereAI applications a re becoming mainstream in assessing opportunities to reduce carbon emissio ns in the energy sector through\, for example\, optimizing electrical grid s.Climate adaptation\, however\, presents more complex challenges due to t he unpredictable nature of hazard impacts and vastly divergent levels of p reparedness across geographies.This session discusses the state-of-the-art in modelling adaptation at diverse spatial scales and how it can support both public and private sector interventions to enhance resilience.Meet ou r speakers and chairParag Khanna is Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo\, the leadin g AI-powered geospatial analytics platform. He is the internationally best selling author of seven books including MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021)\, preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce\, Confli ct & Culture in the 21st Century (2019)\, as well as a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and In fluence in the New Global Order (2008)\, followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011)\, and concluding with Co nnectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and c o-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civi lization (2012). Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century\,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Sma rt List.” He holds a Ph.D. from LSE\, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE\, New York and Germany\, he has traveled to more th an 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Shefali Khanna is a Research Fellow at the LSE Global School of Sustainabi lity\, and the Research Director of the Energy Insights and Innovation Lab (EIIL). Her research focuses on understanding the role of behaviour chang e in the transition to a zero emissions economy and on evaluating the impa ct of climate and pollution mitigation policies. She was previously a Rese arch Associate in Energy and Environmental Economics in the Business Schoo l at Imperial College London. She earned a PhD in Public Policy from Harva rd University.Jonathan Pershing is the inaugural Dean of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE. He has extensive experience at the highest leve l of US climate policy and has played a key role in creating international climate agreements. He has held significant positions in the US Departmen t of State — including as the US Special Envoy for Climate Change — an d at the US Department of Energy. Most recently\, he was the Director of t he Environment Program at the Hewlett Foundation.More informationThe Globa l School of Sustainability at LSE (GSoS) is the interdisciplinary centre f or sustainability research impact at the London School of Economics and Po litical Science (LSE). GSoS works in partnerships to advance pioneering su stainability research\, global policy engagement and world-leading educati onal opportunities. Grounded in LSE’s interdisciplinary excellence acros s the social sciences\, GSoS’s global networks target the systemic chall enges to sustainability embedded in the world’s economies\, politics and societies.Any questions?Contact us at Gsos@lse.ac.ukFrom time to time the re are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that if you plan to attend this event you check back on this listing on the day of the even t.Whilst we are hosting this listing\, LSE Events does not take responsibi lity for the running and administration of this event. While we take respo nsible measures to ensure that accurate information is given here this eve nt is ultimately the responsibility of the organisation presenting the eve nt.LSE holds a wide range of events\, covering many of the most controvers ial issues of the day\, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. 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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/global-school-of-sustainability/events -gsos/data-application-and-sustainability-a-discussion-with-dr-parag-khann a-and-others CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9c4d40bf-421c-4ec7-90b6-2ba7dd715148 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261012T163000 DTEND:20261012T173000 SUMMARY:The Bioengineering Lecture 2026 LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture Theatre B10\, Molecular Sciences Resear ch Hub (MSRH) DESCRIPTION:About the Bioengineering Lecture\nThe Bioengineering Lecture i s the Department of Bioengineering’s flagship lecture\, bringing our com munity together to hear from a leading international researcher working at the forefront of their field.\nThis year\, we welcome Professor Julia Vor holt\, Professor of Microbiology at ETH Zurich\, whose laboratory studies plant microbiomes\, one-carbon metabolism\, and endosymbioses.\nThe lectur e will be followed by a drinks reception\, giving attendees the opportunit y to meet Professor Vorholt and continue the conversation with colleagues from the university.\n\nEngineering Endosymbioses Through Single-Cell Impl antation\nAbstract\nEndosymbiosis\, in which one organism lives inside ano ther\, has profoundly shaped the evolution of complex life forms. By intim ately entangling two organisms\, it enables hosts to acquire metabolic cap abilities and expand into new niches. This interlinked lifestyle requires extensive synchronisation and co-adaptation of the partners with regard to immunity\, metabolism\, replication\, and vertical transmission\, yet how such partnerships begin and stabilise remains elusive.\nWe have developed a single-cell approach using fluidic force microscopy (FluidFM) to transp lant mitochondria and\, building on this technology\, to induce and study endosymbioses by delivering bacteria into host cells. In a fungal host\, i mplanted bacteria established a heritable endosymbiosis that\, under susta ined selection\, became more stable over generations with fitness gains. T hese engineered endosymbioses offer a window into how cellular partnership s arise\, and a route to designing new ones.\nBiography\nJulia Vorholt is Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biology\, ETH Zurich\, Swit zerland. \nShe studied biology at the Universities of Bonn and Marburg and carried out her doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg\, Germany. Following postdoctoral research at the University of Washington in Seattle\, USA\, she led research groups at th e MPI Marburg and subsequently at the CNRS in Toulouse\, France. She joine d ETH Zurich as Associate Professor in 2006 and has been Full Professor si nce 2012. Since 2020\, she has been Co-Director of the Swiss National Cent re of Competence in Research (NCCR) Microbiomes. \nShe is an elected membe r of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)\, the Academia Eur opaea and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina\, and an inte rnational member of the US National Academy of Sciences. \nHer awards incl ude the Otto Hahn Medal\, the Feodor Lynen Medal and the Novonesis Biotech nology Prize\, as well as three ERC Advanced Grants. Her laboratory studie s and engineers plant microbiomes\, one-carbon metabolism and endosymbiose s\, and develops fluidic force microscopy (FluidFM) for single-cell manipu lation. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/211811/the-bioengineering- lecture-2026/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8af2e1ac-20c7-440a-8736-b445de128c72 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261012T170000 DTEND:20261012T190000 SUMMARY:Can Europe Survive? And if so\, How? LOCATION:King's College London: Bush House\nRoom: Eighth Floor North\nStra nd campus\, 30 Aldwych\, London\, WC2B 4BG URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/can-europe-survive-and-if-so-ho w CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20eec261-b0f2-43ac-9542-0e4f611e0789 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261012T173000 DTEND:20261012T190000 SUMMARY:Sustainable post-crisis development: the need for a human rights a pproach LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Sh eikh Zayed Theatre\, Cheng Kin Ku Building) DESCRIPTION:Monday 12 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakersAgnès CallamardDr Myfanwy JamesChiara LiguoriPolly TruscottChairProfessor Tim ForsythThe dia logue will bring together researchers from LSE's Department of Internation al Development and practitioners from Amnesty International\, Internationa l Secretariat (IS) & UK Section (AIUK) to share knowledge on putting polic y into practice while centring the human experience in development.The dis cussion will focus on how robust evidence can inform design\, implementati on and evaluation of policies that uphold human rights and improve develop ment outcomes under real-world constraints. It creates a forum where acade mic insights meet front-line experience so that research findings are tran slated into actionable approaches\, with attention to ethics\, accountabil ity\, and the lived realities of affected communities.Meet our speakers an d chairAgnès Callamard is Secretary General at Amnesty International. She leads the organization’s human rights work and is its chief spokesperso n. Agnès has been a prominent figure in the human rights world for decade s. In 2016\, she was appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial\, summary or arbitrary killings. Along with her UN work\, Agnès was also the Director of Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia U niversity in New York.Myfanwy James is an Assistant Professor in Internati onal Development and Humanitarian Emergencies at LSE. Her work examines th e politics of humanitarian intervention in contexts of conflict and displa cement\, with a regional focus on the eastern Democratic Republic of the C ongo. Using ethnographic and historical methods\, she has conducted resear ch on how humanitarians negotiate their access with armed groups\, the exp erience of locally hired humanitarians in security management\, structures of inequality in aid\, as well as the contested legitimacy of medical res earch in epidemic contexts. Her work has been published in Third World Qu arterly\, Development and Change\, Medical Anthropology\, Journal of Inter vention and Statebuilding\, Disasters\, Social Science and Medicine\, and Journal of Humanitarian Affairs.Chiara Liguori is Head of the Rise of Aut horitarian Practices Hub at the International Secretariat of Amnesty Inter national\, leading a programme that catalyses new ideas and approaches to counter the rise of authoritarianism across the world. She has long-standi ng experience in climate justice\, human rights\, social justice and devel opment\, having worked across policy\, advocacy and research for Amnesty I nternational\, Oxfam GB and the UN in London\, Mexico\, Haiti and Comoros. Polly Truscott is Amnesty International UK’s lead on International Affai rs. She has 30 years’ experience of international human rights law and h umanitarian work\, including with the UN Office of the High Commissioner f or Human Rights\, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the International Rescue Committee\, based in London\, New York\, the Balkans\, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Areas of expertise include human right s-centred UK foreign policy and UN human rights mechanisms.Tim Forsyth is a specialist on the politics of environment and development\, with a focus on understanding contested science and risk within environmental governan ce. 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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/post-crisis-development CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ba38f884-60f8-4e39-94ce-13b5987f894f SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261013T120000 DTEND:20261013T130000 SUMMARY:From Perception to Physiology: How Attention Shapes Acute Immune R esponses LOCATION:King's College London: Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neu roscience (IoPPN)\nRoom: Small Lecture Theatre\nIoPPN\, 16 De Crespigny Pa rk\, London SE5 8AB URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/from-perception-to-physiology-h ow-attention-shapes-acute-immune-responses CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e8ad7dab-eb89-439d-8610-73b5463eb576 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261013T160000 DTEND:20261013T170000 SUMMARY:The Science of Puppetry – How Real Can They Be? LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/science-puppetry CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a1ed3146-0230-4c60-89ad-cc6a47d99dbf SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261013T161500 DTEND:20261013T174500 SUMMARY:Shaping the future: Europe’s quest for technological leadership LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (LSE campus\, venue tbc to ticketholders) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 13 October 2026 5.15pm - 6.45pmSpeakerPhilippe AghionD iscussantsSir Tim BesleyDr Daniel ChandlerProfessor Sara B HoboltChairProf essor Larry KramerOne year on from receiving the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences\, Philippe Aghion joins us at LSE to mark the offici al launch of the Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy.Professor Agh ion will explore one of the most pressing and challenging questions of our time: what kind of economy we want to build for the future - one that is dynamic\, resilient and generates meaningful work. His remarks will be fol lowed by a panel discussion chaired by Larry Kramer\, and joined by Tim Be sley\, Daniel Chandler and Sara Hobolt.Meet our speakers and chairPhilippe Aghion is the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in economics\, a professor LSE an d the College de France and an associate of the Centre for Economic Perfor mance. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Acade my of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the economics of growth. With Peter Howitt\, he pioneered the so-called Schumpeterian Growth paradi gm which was subsequently used to analyse the design of growth policies an d the role of the state in the growth process.Tim Besley is School Profess or of Economics and Political Science and W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Dev elopment Economics at LSE\, and Director of the Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy.Daniel Chandler is an economist and philosopher based at the London School of Economics\, where he is Executive Director of the Hu th Initiative for a New Political Economy\, Research Director of the Progr amme on Cohesive Capitalism\, and Assistant Professorial Research Fellow i n the School of Public Policy.Sara Hobolt is the Sutherland Chair in Europ ean Institutions and Head of the Department of Government at LSE.Larry Kra mer has been President and Vice Chancellor of LSE since April 2024. A cons titutional scholar\, university administrator\, and philanthropic leader\, he was previously the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundati on and the Dean of Stanford Law School.More about this eventThe Huth Initi ative for a New Political Economy is a major multi-year programme combinin g rigorous research with policy engagement to turn ideas into practice. 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If the event is ticketed\, please ensure you get in touch in advance of the ticket release date. Access Guides to all our venues can be viewed online .WIFI Access LSE has now introduced wireless for guests and visitors in as sociation with 'The Cloud'\, also in use at many other locations across th e UK. If you are on campus visiting for the day or attending a conference or event\, you can connect your device to wireless. See more information a nd create an account at Join the Cloud.Visitors from other participating i nstitutions are encouraged to use eduroam. If you are having trouble conn ecting to eduroam\, please contact your home institution for assistance.Th e Cloud is only intended for guest and visitor access to wifi. Existing LS E staff and students are encouraged to use eduroam instead.From time to t ime there are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that if yo u plan to attend this event you check back on this listing on the day of t he event.LSE holds a wide range of events\, covering many of the most cont roversial issues of the day\, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. The views expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the position or views of the London School of Economics and Politi cal Science. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/political-economy-1 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3804b2d4-1075-412e-8e75-997d1f0844f4 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261013T183000 DTEND:20261013T193000 SUMMARY:GLOBAL CULTURES: AKANE ARAKI 13 OCT 2026 LOCATION:Cambridge University: West Court Jesus College DESCRIPTION:Join us for a one-off event with award-winning author Akane AR AKI this October. Tickets are available below. The UK is enjoying a surge in popularity of Japanese contemporary literature. Yet\, one particular ge nre remains overlooked: crime and mystery. Following the recent trend of J apanese works being shortlisted for the Dagger for Crime Fiction in Transl ation\, it is clear that we have much more to explore. We’re delighted\, therefore\, to be collaborating with the Japan Foundation to bring prize- winning author Akane ARAKI to Cambridge for the first time this October\, in celebration of her newly translated debut novel\, Murder at the End of the World. ARAKI\, praised by well-known mystery novelists such as Yukito AYATSUJI and Arisu ARISUGAWA\, is somebody we all should watch out for\, r egardless of whether you are a fan of crime novels. ARAKI will be joined i n conversation by Dr Victoria Young. Murder at the End of the World An ast eroid is hurtling towards Earth\, and the human race has just over two mon ths to live. But twenty-three-year-old Haru\, stargazer and chronic worrie r\, is still trying to pass her driving test. Then she finds a body in the boot of her car: a woman\, stabbed and tortured. There’s a murderer on the loose. And it turns out that Haru’s driving instructor is an ex-cop with a manic devotion to justice. So\, despite the small matter of an impe nding apocalypse\, the two women team up to catch the culprit regardless o f the danger. After all\, the world’s not quite over yet… About Akane ARAKI Akane ARAKI was born in 1998 in Fukuoka\, Japan and is a graduate of Kyushu University’s School of Letters. At 23 years old\, she published her debut novel\, Murder at the End of the World\, after her manuscript wo n Japan’s most prestigious award for unpublished crime writers\, the Edo gawa Rampo Prize. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=121326ff -9439-480a-b1aa-978ff84fbafd CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f68e4aea-ecb6-4b5e-8fc5-92cbc934a2e8 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261013T173000 DTEND:20261013T190000 SUMMARY:Solving homelessness through partnership: philanthropy\, finance\, and social entrepreneurship LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (Wolfson Theat re\, Cheng Kin Ku Building) DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 13 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakersSarah HopleyProfes sor Jonathan RobertsDr Ligia TeixeiraChairDr Kerryn KrigeHomelessness is a n urgent social problem in the UK and other countries. But solving homeles sness can seem an unmanageable challenge. Homelessness is driven by comple x interactions of structural factors\, place-based context and individual trajectories. Prevention is more effective and less costly than crisis res ponse\, yet receives limited attention. Can private action - social entrep reneurship\, philanthropy\, and new forms of private capital deployment – make a difference?This event launches a new edited volume How to Use E vidence to End Homelessness\, including a chapter by Jonathan Roberts: "So cial entrepreneurship: creating social impact in the homelessness field". It will explore important questions about the role of private action in so lving homelessness. Join our panel of experts as they consider:What’s th e role of private action – social entrepreneurship\, philanthropy\, volu ntary action – in enabling sustainable solutions?How can we have effecti ve cross-sector partnerships?What can new mechanisms of capital allocation and finance achieve?Within such private action - how we ensure rigour\, t he best use of evidence\, and that our efforts are focused in the right pl ace in complex systems?Copies of the handbook will be available for purcha se and signing on the evening.The handbook is also available open access h ere.Meet our speakersSarah Hopley is Head of Venture Studio at Crisis\, th e national charity for people experiencing homelessness in the UK. She lea ds the charity's impact investment strategy to back early-stage ventures w orking to end homelessness and housing insecurity. She also sits on Crisis 's Strategic Leadership Group and Housing Delivery Board\, and holds board observer roles at portfolio companies. Before Crisis\, Sarah worked in co mmercial roles in property and proptech\, latterly at Appear Here\, where she made London's retail space accessible to the brands and businesses usu ally locked out of it. Sarah is a Year Here Fellow and holds an Executive MSc in Social Business and Entrepreneurship from LSE\, where she was a Mar shall Scholar. She won Social Investment Champion at the 2024 WISE100 Awar ds from Pioneers Post and NatWest.Jonathan Roberts is Professor (Education ) in Civil Society and Public Policy at the Marshall Institute at the Lond on School of Economics. He leads the development of teaching activities at the Institute\, where he designed the ground-breaking executive MSc in So cial Business and Entrepreneurship. Jonathan’s research interests includ e philanthropic funding systems\, social justice philanthropy\, hybrid org anisations\, social enterprises\, and the interaction of government with p rivate action for public benefit. He is currently leading a research study into the role and performance of philanthropy in five global financial ce ntres. His work has been published in social policy\, education\, sociolog y and public administration journals.Lígia Teixeira works on how societie s prevent and respond to homelessness. Her work focuses on closing the gap between ambition and impact: particularly where good intentions are under mined by fragmented systems\, weak delivery\, or a lack of learning about what works. She works at the intersection of government\, civil society\, and philanthropy\, supporting leaders to make better decisions about both what to do and how to do it well. Trained in political theory\, her intere st in homelessness grew from questions of power\, justice\, rhetoric and t he role of the state – shaped during her time at the London School of Ec onomics\, where\, walking through Lincoln’s Inn Fields\, she first confr onted the reality of rough sleeping.She is the founding Chief Executive of the Centre for Homelessness Impact\, which she established in 2018 to str engthen the use of evidence\, data\, and learning across homelessness syst ems in the UK and beyond. She is particularly interested in how complex sy stems change\, how prevention can be embedded in policy and practice\, and how long-term investment and learning translate ambition into better outc omes for people.Meet our chairKerryn Krige is a Senior Lecturer in Practic e at the Marshall Institute\, specialising in social entrepreneurship and the social and solidarity economy. She teaches on the Executive MSc Social Business and Entrepreneurship and the MSc Social Innovation and Entrepren eurship at LSE\, and is course convenor for the online certificate and one -week executive courses\, in social enterprise.She brings extensive experi ence from across the social entrepreneurship and non‑profit sectors\, br idging theoretical and practice perspectives. Kerryn led the development o f the social and solidarity economy policy for the South African governmen t and the African Union\, co‑founded the African Network of Social Entre preneurship Scholars\, and previously headed the Network of Social Entrepr eneurs at GIBS\, University of Pretoria. Her research examines social entr epreneurship in diverse contexts\, including two national mapping studies in South Africa and a six‑country study for the ILO. Current projects in clude a collaboration on social enterprise in Benin\, and the development of new case studies using the Charles Booth archives as well as ventures s upported by the 100X Impact Accelerator. She has served as an independent trustee on CSI\, impact‑finance\, and social enterprise boards\, and cur rently sits on the board of research network EMES.Any questions?You can co ntact us at J.Treuer@lse.ac.uk.From time to time there are changes to even t details so we strongly recommend that if you plan to attend this event y ou check back on this listing on the day of the event.Whilst we are hostin g this listing\, LSE Events does not take responsibility for the running a nd administration of this event. While we take responsible measures to ens ure that accurate information is given here this event is ultimately the r esponsibility of the organisation presenting the event.LSE holds a wide ra nge of events\, covering many of the most controversial issues of the day\ , and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. The vie ws expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the position or view s of the London School of Economics and Political Science. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/marshall-institute/events/homelessness -and-evidence CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b49d72ec-23dc-458e-8c29-17ecb1033002 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261013T193000 DTEND:20261013T210000 SUMMARY:A Very Superior Lady: The remarkable life and diaries of Annie Amo s LOCATION:Cambridge University: Ross Street Community Centre DESCRIPTION:Claire Martinsen explores the extraordinary life of Victorian heiress Annie Amos\, whose story reads more like a novel than a convention al biography. Annie spent the majority of her life living at Paston House (now St. Mary’s School). Drawing on spellbinding diaries discovered in t he Downing College archive\, Claire reveals a life of culture\, travel and privilege\, before Annie’s burial at Mill Road Cemetery in 1908. Claire has been a member of the Mill Road Cemetery History Group for a number of years and has given several well received talks to the Mill Road History Society drawn from her research in the cemetery. By day Claire is a succes sful entrepreneur and runs Breckland Orchard which makes carbonated drinks . She is also a member of the Mill Road WI. This talk takes place at Ross Street Community Centre which is fully accessible. Doors open at 7pm and t he talk starts at 7:30pm. Tea and biscuits provided. Note as audience numb ers are unpredictable we urge people to arrive early so as not to be turne d away if we reach capacity. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=80d632af -e15c-43b5-88c4-6c141ee7ef28 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c40cb3bd-ea0a-4f75-a7fd-5ef6bb3200e9 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261014T160000 DTEND:20261014T170000 SUMMARY:Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Muse um History LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/trivial-precious CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d01c99b1-32a7-48e8-905d-290137fa360b SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261014T160000 DTEND:20261014T173000 SUMMARY:The Language of Crowds: Public Assembly and Embodied Force in Indi a LOCATION:King's College London: Bush House\nRoom: SE 2.10\nStrand campus\, 30 Aldwych\, London\, WC2B 4BG URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-language-of-crowds-public-a ssembly-and-embodied-force-in-india CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cc5cee5e-87df-4613-986c-eda8b65412d5 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261014T163000 DTEND:20261014T190000 SUMMARY:Stolen! Theft in the archive: exhibition launch and lecture LOCATION:London School of Economics: LSE Library DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 14 October 2026 5.30pm - 8pmSpeakersJo Ellen JacobsH elen McCabeMichael SchefczykChristoph Schmidt-PetriChairJ McKenzie Alexand erCome along to hear about a new edition of On Liberty\, meet its editors\ , and explore Stolen! Theft in the Archive.Talk: Harriet Taylor Mill and O n Liberty (5.30pm to 7pm)Join the editors of a groundbreaking new edition of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty to hear about the scholarship behind th e first edition of the work to publish Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author. For generations\, On Liberty has been associated primarily with John Stuar t Mill. This new edition re-examines the evidence for Harriet Taylor Mill ’s contribution to the work and brings her role as a co-author to the fo refront. The editors will discuss the research and editorial decisions beh ind the new edition\, and what recognising Taylor Mill’s contribution ch anges about how we understand one of the most influential works in the his tory of liberal political thought.Co-hosted by LSE Library and the Departm ent of Philosophy\, Logic\, & Scientific MethodExhibition launch reception : Stolen! Theft in the Archive (6.30pm to 8pm)Following the talk*\, join u s for the launch reception for Stolen! Theft in the Archive\, an exhibitio n featuring items from the archives of Harriet Taylor Mill.The exhibition brings together an international team of curators to explore theft in its many forms: wealth taken by others\, ideas obscured by the published recor d\, and robbed legacies. It examines how theft shapes what we remember and what we forget.*If you are unable to make the talk\, please join us for t he reception celebrating the exhibition.SpeakersJo Ellen Jacobs is Profess or Emerita from Millikin University. She currently lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, USA.Helen McCabe is Professor of Political Theory at the Univers ity of Nottingham. She is the author of John Stuart Mill\, Socialist (2021 ) and a Cambridge Element on Harriet Taylor Mill (2023).Michael Schefczyk is a professor of philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT ).Christoph Schmidt-Petri is senior lecturer in practical philosophy at th e Karlsruhe Institute of Technology\, and holds a PhD from LSEChairJ. McKe nzie Alexander is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy\ , Logic and Scientific Method at LSE\, where he has taught for over twenty -five years and served as Head of Department from 2018 to 2021. In The Str uctural Evolution of Morality (Cambridge University Press\, 2007) and Evol utionary Game Theory (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, he used compute r simulations of game theory to examine how moral rules and social convent ions emerge from the repeated interactions of individuals. His most recent book\, The Open Society as an Enemy (LSE Press\, 2024)\, examined the way s free societies have come to undermine the very liberties they were built to protect\, a question related to arguments Mill and Taylor Mill were ma king in On Liberty. He is also the author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on evolutionary game theory\, which has been read more than 100\,000 times.Event partnerThis event is cohosted with the Departmen t of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method\, founded by Karl Popper in 1946 and is renowned for a type of philosophy that is both continuous with the sciences and socially relevant.Further informationAbout us The Britis h Library of Political and Economic Science\, known as LSELibrary\, was fo unded in 1896\, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. It has been based in the Lionel Robbins Building since 1978 and h ouses many world class collections\, including The Women's Library and the Hall-Carpenter Archives.Accessibility If you are planning to attend this event and would like details on how to get here and what time to arrive\, as well as on accessibility and special requirements\, please refer to LSE Events FAQ.LSE aims to ensure that people have equal access to these publ ic events\, but please contact the events organiser as far as possible in advance if you have any access requirements so that arrangements\, where p ossible\, can be made.Access Guides to all our venues can be viewed online .Social media Follow LSE public events on X for the latest updates on ev ents and ticket releases.Videos of past LSE Library events and more are on our YouTube channel.Event updates and other information about what’s h appening at LSE can be found on the LSE Facebook page. 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Existing LSE staff and students ar e encouraged to use eduroam instead.From time to time there are changes t o event details so we strongly recommend that if you plan to attend this e vent you check back on this listing on the day of the event.Whilst we are hosting this listing\, LSE Events does not take responsibility for the run ning and administration of this event. While we take responsible measures to ensure that accurate information is given here this event is ultimately the responsibility of the organisation presenting the event.LSE holds a w ide range of events\, covering many of the most controversial issues of th e day\, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. T he views expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the position o r views of the London School of Economics and Political Science. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on/events/stolen-theft-i n-the-archive-exhibition-launch-and-lecture CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:794fcafe-a1f4-440b-b284-0ff9258b3a48 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261014T163000 DTEND:20261014T173000 SUMMARY:The look of why: causality matters in medical imaging AI LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre 200\, City and Guilds Building DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Ben Glocker\, Professor in Machine Learning for Imaging\, to discover how causality could help make medical imaging AI sa fer\, fairer and more reliable. \nPlease register to attend in person. A l ive stream link for online attendance is available here. \nWe look forwar d to seeing you on Wednesday 14 October!\nImperial Inaugurals are term-t ime lectures that celebrate our newest Professors\, recognising their acad emic journey and showcasing their research.\nAbstract\nArtificial intellig ence is transforming medical imaging\, promising more accurate diagnosis \, earlier detection of disease\, and better clinical decision-making. But the path from research prototype to trusted clinical tool remains diffi cult. AI systems can silently fail when new data differs from the data on which they were trained. Changes in patient populations\, imaging protocol s\, and healthcare settings across geographic regions can cause distributi on shifts that undermine the reliability\, robustness\, and fairness of AI predictions.\nIn this inaugural lecture\, Professor Ben Glocker explores why causality matters for understanding when AI works and when it fails. He will discuss the role of ‘what-if’ reasoning and the use of the lat est causal generative models to create realistic counterfactual images tha t can stress-test AI systems\, expose blind spots\, and mitigate bias. Ul timately\, causality may be the missing ingredient that turns medical ima ging AI from a promising technology into a life-saving reality.\nBiography \nBen Glocker is a Professor in Machine Learning for Imaging at Imperial ’s Department of Computing where he co-leads the Biomedical Image Analys is Group. He holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Safe D eployment of Medical Imaging AI\, and also leads the Heartflow-Imperial Research Lab. He received his PhD from TU Munich\, was a postdoc at Micro soft and a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research is at the intersection of medical imaging and artificial intelligence\, aimi ng to build safe and ethical computational tools for improving image-based detection and diagnosis of disease. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212238/the-look-of-why-cau sality-matters-in-medical-imaging-ai/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3af7fcc7-2198-4289-b41f-3a5a02bdf95f SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261014T173000 DTEND:20261014T183000 SUMMARY:Francis Crick Prize Lecture: Pathogens and the power of evolution LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/10 /francis-crick-prize-lecture/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8d69eb0f-232f-4910-a3a6-9f47296952ea SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261014T173000 DTEND:20261014T190000 SUMMARY:Weaponising dependency - the new world order LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (LS E campus\, venue tbc to ticketholders) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 14 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerRt Hon Rory Stewa rt OBEChairProfessor Jeffrey ChwierothIn this public lecture\, Rory Stewar t explores how economic interdependence\, technological networks and globa l supply chains have become instruments of geopolitical power.As states in creasingly leverage trade\, energy\, finance and critical technologies to advance strategic interests\, longstanding assumptions about globalisation \, cooperation and security are being fundamentally reshaped. Drawing on h is experience as a scholar\, diplomat and former Cabinet minister\, Stewar t examines the implications of this emerging international landscape for d emocratic governance\, international institutions and the balance of power between states. Addressing some of the most pressing political and econom ic challenges of our time\, this lecture will offer fresh insights into th e changing nature of power\, dependency and resilience in a rapidly evolvi ng world order.Meet our speaker and chairRory Stewart is Professor in the Practice of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and co-presenter of The Rest is Politics podcast. A form er UK cabinet minister\, diplomat and Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan\, taught at Harvard and Yal e\, has written six books\, and co-presents The Rest Is Politics with Alas tair Campbell.Rory served as UK Secretary of State for International Devel opment\, Minister of State for Justice\, Minister of State in the Foreign Office and DFID\, and Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committ ee. After a brief period as an infantry officer\, he joined the UK Diploma tic Service\, serving in Jakarta\, as British representative to Montenegro after the Kosovo crisis\, and as coalition Deputy-Governor of two provinc es in southern Iraq following the 2003 intervention. He later undertook a two-year walk across Afghanistan\, Iran\, Pakistan\, India and Nepal. In 2 005\, he founded the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul\, restoring pa rt of the old city\, establishing a clinic\, primary school and arts insti tute\, and supporting Afghan crafts. In 2008\, he became Ryan Professor of Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Carr Cente r for Human Rights Policy. He later served as Brady-Johnson Professor of t he Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale and remains associated with Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.His books are The Places in Between\, Oc cupational Hazards (published in the US as The Prince of the Marshes)\, Ca n Intervention Work?\, The Marches\, Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from W ithin\, and Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders\, published in October 2025.Jeffrey Chwieroth is Head of the Department of International Relatio ns and Professor of International Political Economy at LSE. He is also co- investigator of the Systemic Risk Centre\, Associate of the Grantham Insti tute on Climate Change and the Environment\, and Faculty Affiliate at the Phelan United States Centre.More about this eventJoin us on campus or regi ster to watch the event online at LSE Live. 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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/weaponising-dependency CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aa2c0d6f-95c4-4d77-bb54-129947ac1401 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T150000 DTEND:20261015T160000 SUMMARY:Crick Lecture | Bonnie Bassler LOCATION:The Francis Crick Institute: The Francis Crick Institute URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/crick-lecture-bonnie-bassle r CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ffa8c88f-87e8-40ab-82d9-4c4880209b7b SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T150000 DTEND:20261015T160000 SUMMARY:David Hand: What’s the Question? Deciding What You Really Want t o Know. LOCATION:Imperial College: Clore Lecture Theatre\, Huxley Building DESCRIPTION:This special event is co-hosted by RSS Data Science and AI and Imperial College London. We are delighted to welcome Professor David Hand OBE\, who will deliver a talk based on his latest book\, What’s the Que stion? Deciding What You Really Want to Know:\nBefore any effective data a nalysis can be undertaken\, we must be clear about the precise question we wish to answer and ensure that it is accurately represented in statistica l terms. Ambiguous questions or inappropriate analytical approaches can le ad to misleading conclusions and poor decisions. In this talk\, Professor Hand will explore this challenge through a range of examples\, demonstrati ng how the most obvious method is not always the most appropriate one\, fr om straightforward problems to complex statistical applications.\nTo celeb rate the event\, a number of signed copies of Professor Hand’s book will be awarded to attendees through a prize draw.\nFor more information about the book\, please click here.\nFollowed by a small reception afterwards. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/213531/whats-the-question- deciding-what-you-really-want-to-know-by-professor-david-j-hand/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ab3135c4-989b-44e8-902c-53a1cd4c0af2 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T153000 DTEND:20261015T163000 SUMMARY:A History of the World in Four Algorithms LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/history-algorithms CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:49df8cde-ec90-41af-a9af-19dc087c495c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T160000 DTEND:20261015T190000 SUMMARY:Leslie Bethell Annual Lecture on Brazil LOCATION:King's College London: Bush House\nRoom: 8th Floor\nStrand campus \, 30 Aldwych\, London\, WC2B 4BG URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/leslie-bethell-annual-lecture CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aad57d1-15fb-4962-9dee-d00341e59e13 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T163000 DTEND:20261015T174500 SUMMARY:Book Talk: 'Peace Makers: Shaping the modern world - the men and w omen of the Foreign Office in WWII' by Lord Peter Ricketts LOCATION:King's College London: King's Building\nRoom: River Room (KIN 227 )\nStrand Campus\, Strand\, London\, WC2R 2LS URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-talk-peace-makers-shaping- the-modern-world-the-men-and-women-of-the-foreign-office-in-wwii-by-lord-p eter-ricketts CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:30af1305-768a-4041-a815-349bc3950e05 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T170000 DTEND:20261015T190000 SUMMARY:Designing for parental wellbeing: a new way to conceptualise wellb eing in our cities LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (MA R.2.04\, Marshall Building) DESCRIPTION:Thursday 15 October 2026 6pm - 8pmSpeakersGeorgina BlixCristin a GarrigaFilippo LodiProfessor Almudena SevillaChairKatie BeckThe urban en vironment can either add to or help alleviate the mental load of parenting . The way we design housing\, streets\, public spaces\, services and every day journeys influences parents’ ability to access support\, connect wit h others\, feel safe\, rest and navigate daily life. Design has the abilit y to offer solutions to some of society's most complex challenges and in t his panel discussion\, we will explore how the built and social environmen t intersects with different dimensions of wellbeing—from mental and phys ical health to belonging\, connection and loneliness—and what it would m ean for cities to intentionally design with caregivers’ experiences in m ind.Meet our speakers and chairGeorgina Blix is an Associate Director at C HROFI in Sydney\, and Head of Wellbeing research for the architectural des ign studio. Georgina is an internationally renowned expert in design for w ellbeing and couples this with expertise in urban design\, master planning \, residential design\, and education. Her areas of research include how t o design for and measure wellbeing in cities with a focus on inter-generat ional connection\, reducing loneliness and inclusive design.Cristina Garri ga is an Associate and Senior Creative Strategist at UNS\, where she shape s meaningful experiences through insight-driven strategy\, brand innovatio n and human-centred design. Working across architecture\, urban design\, a nd product design\, she brings together strategic thinking and creative ex ecution\, ensuring brands\, places\, and environments are not only distinc tive and engaging but deeply purposeful\, relevant\, and built around the needs of clients\, users\, and communities.Filippo Lodi is a Director at U NS\, where he leads a multidisciplinary team of architects\, interior desi gners\, urban planners\, creative strategists and product designers. Train ed in engineering\, architecture and business\, he bridges research\, stra tegy and design execution to create human-centred environments that suppor t everyday wellbeing. He has lectured and taught at Harvard GSD\, The Bart lett\, TU Darmstadt and the University of Bologna.Almudena Sevilla is a Pr ofessor of Economic and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy a t LSE. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE ) in January 2025 for her contributions to economics and her leadership in advancing women in the profession. She is the Founding Chair and now Amba ssador of the Royal Economic Society’s UK Women in Economics Network\, a nd she leads the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub.Katie Beck is a Policy Fellow at LSE Cities where she manages the Urban95 Academ y\, working with an interdisciplinary team to help municipal leaders desig n more child-friendly cities. Her areas of interest include gender-equal\, child-friendly and care-centred city design and her independent research has looked at the gender dynamics of urban play spaces in east London anal ysing the spatial and social factors that impact access to and experience of public space.Any questions?You can contact us at urban95.academy@lse.ac .uk.From time to time there are changes to event details so we strongly re commend that if you plan to attend this event you check back on this listi ng on the day of the event.Whilst we are hosting this listing\, LSE Events does not take responsibility for the running and administration of this e vent. While we take responsible measures to ensure that accurate informati on is given here this event is ultimately the responsibility of the organi sation presenting the event.LSE holds a wide range of events\, covering ma ny of the most controversial issues of the day\, and speakers at our event s may express views that cause offence. 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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/cities/designing-for-wellbeing-a-new-w ay-to-conceptualise-the-wellbeing-of-caregivers CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31271882-ff47-4650-afb4-09a7d27098b4 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T173000 DTEND:20261015T190000 SUMMARY:The republic of innovation: a new political economy of freedom LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Ma laysia Auditorium\, Centre Building) DESCRIPTION:Thursday 15 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerDr Andrea Lorenzo CapusselaDiscussantsProfessor David SoskiceProfessor Quentin SkinnerProfes sor Leila Simona TalaniChairProfessor Valentino LarcineseJoin us for this talk and discussion with Andrea Lorenzo Capussela as he discusses his book \, The Republic of Innovation.In the book he exams freedom\, power and eco nomic growth. He challenges the idea that freedom means lack of constraint \, arguing instead for freedom as independence from domination. Drawing on political philosophy and growth theory\, the talk explores how security\, innovation and risk-taking are linked\, and what this means for economic policy\, labour markets\, inequality and the capacity of democracies to re new themselves in a post-neoliberal context and institutional reform debat es today across Europe and beyond. The book was named as a Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2026: Economics\, and described by Martin Wolf as 'a n original and provocative work on how to combine freedom with prosperity' .Meet our speakers and chairAndrea Lorenzo Capussela is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at LSE. From 2008 to 2011\, he served as t he head of the economics unit of the International Civilian Office in Koso vo\, and then\, until 2014\, as adviser to Moldova’s minister of economy \, on behalf of the EU. His writing has appeared in serval media publicati ons.Quentin Skinner is a British historian. He is regarded as one of the f ounders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He ha s won numerous prizes for his work\, Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius P rofessor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Pro fessor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of th e History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.David So skice is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Government\, and was Scho ol Professor of Political Science and Economics from 2012-2022. He taught macroeconomics at Oxford from 1967 to 1990\, was then research director/pr ofessor at the Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin (1990-2005)\, and subsequently R esearch Professor of Comparative Political Economy at Oxford and senior re search fellow at Nuffield College\, and Research Professor of Political Sc ience at Duke.Leila Simona Talani has been Professor of International Poli tical Economy in the Department of European and International Studies sinc e 2014. She became editor of the Palgrave series on the Politics of Migrat ion and Citizenship in 2020. In 2022 she founded the Centre for Italian Po litics @ EIS of which she is the director. Since November 2024 she is the Director of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the relations between the EU and the UK at King's college London.Valentino Larcinese is professor o f public policy. He holds a laurea in Economic and Social Disciplines from Bocconi University and a PhD in Economics from LSE. He has been an associ ate professor at Bocconi\, an economist at the Bank of Italy and has held visiting appointments at several universities\, including MIT (Cambridge M A)\, Bocconi (Milan)\, Sciences Po (Paris)\, Universitat Autonoma (Barcelo na)\, Universita’ Tor Vergata (Rome).More about this eventJoin us on cam pus or register to watch the event online at LSE Live. LSE Live is the hom e for our live streams\, allowing you to tune in and join the global debat e at LSE\, wherever you are in the world. If you can't attend live\, a vid eo will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube channel.The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Discipl ines (STICERD) carry out research within nine research programmes. 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URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/political-economy CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9dddbe87-2ea0-4b19-bae6-3275677f7425 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T180000 DTEND:20261015T200000 SUMMARY:Transmission as a Creative Act: Pluriversalizing contemporary art ’s relationship/s to the past LOCATION:SOAS: SOAS and Online URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/transmission-creative-act -pluriversalizing-contemporary-arts-relationship/s-past CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:888e49c5-cf88-400a-913f-9dba9b6c8b22 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261015T180000 DTEND:20261015T203000 SUMMARY:Inaugural Annual Ruth Adams Lecture: Is Music Getting Worse? LOCATION:King's College London: Strand CampusStrand\, London\, WC2R 2LS URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/inaugural-annual-ruth-adams-lec ture-is-music-getting-worse CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:99f9f581-bd9f-4e27-bdb9-1fefc00b2b53 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261016T120000 DTEND:20261016T130000 SUMMARY:Tackling paediatric asthma LOCATION:Imperial College: undefined DESCRIPTION:Asthma is the most common long-term illness in children\, affe cting their daily lives and placing a significant burden on young people\, their families and healthcare services. \nChildhood asthma is shaped by b oth biology and environment. As researchers develop more targeted treatmen ts for severe asthma\, there is also growing recognition of the impact tha t environmental exposures can have on children’s lung health. \nIn this seminar\, two experts will talk about their research on preventing and tre ating paediatric asthma and answer your questions: \n\nProfessor Frank Kel ly CBE holds the inaugural Humphrey Battcock Chair in Community Health and Policy\, within Imperial’s School of Public Health and is Director of I mperial’s Environmental Research Group. Professor Kelly will talk about his research on environmental determinants of asthma and exposure monitori ng.\nProfessor Sejal Saglani is Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medici ne in Imperial’s National Heart and Lung Institute and Director of Imper ial’s Centre for Paediatrics and Child Heath . She is an Honorary Consul tant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Pr ofessor Saglani will talk about her research on advancing new treatments f or severe paediatric asthma. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/211823/tackling-paediatric -asthma/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c43e2f23-60f0-4e0c-8a42-d72d6db9af35 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261016T170000 DTEND:20261016T180000 SUMMARY:ANDREW CHAMBLIN MEMORIAL LECTURE 2026 LOCATION:Cambridge University: Centre for Mathematical Sciences DESCRIPTION:The twentieth Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture\, entitled "Sin gularities in Space and Time"\, will be given by Professor Gary Horowitz ( University of California\, Santa Barbara) at 5 pm BST on Friday 16th Octob er at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambridge. The lecture will also be livestreamed online. Admission is free\, but boo king is required via the website. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=13c2f5a9 -7070-4fdf-9ad3-091ff7f16a93 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bd37eb73-aa22-40b4-b319-d8b0aa141af4 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261016T170000 DTEND:20261016T180000 SUMMARY:Local Voices\, Living Words: exhibition launch\, talk and guided t ours LOCATION:SOAS: SOAS University of London URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/local-voices-living-words -exhibition-launch-talk-and-guided-tours CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c8f255cf-1d0d-4c3b-8934-e7b36fb094be SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261019T120000 DTEND:20261019T133000 SUMMARY:Chinese Business in the UK: What’s Changing? LOCATION:King's College London: King's Building\nRoom: KIN 227\nStrand Cam pus\, Strand\, London\, WC2R 2LS URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/chinese-business-in-the-uk-what s-changing CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:92c9cd6e-24ad-4204-b3cd-a0dbbb84882e SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261019T160000 DTEND:20261019T170000 SUMMARY:The Uses of Rhetoric\, Past and Present LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/uses-rhetoric CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:00119b66-9944-4a9c-a645-b0cdaf05d6bd SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261019T173000 DTEND:20261019T193000 SUMMARY:Centre of European Law 52nd Annual Lecture LOCATION:King's College London: Strand Campus\nRoom: The Great HallStrand\ , London\, WC2R 2LS URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/centre-of-european-law-52nd-ann ual-lecture CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:144a2f83-081a-45e2-baf5-6baf750676de SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261019T180000 DTEND:20261019T200000 SUMMARY:China Week Opening Keynote & Reception - BRICS\, the G20 and China LOCATION:King's College London: Bush House\nStrand campus\, 30 Aldwych\, L ondon\, WC2B 4BG URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/brics-the-g20-china CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dfa69876-9bc6-4b7d-91b5-bbc1ff8c97a5 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261020T130000 DTEND:20261020T140000 SUMMARY:AI\, the Biblical Narrative\, and Rival Stories LOCATION:Cambridge University: Westminster College DESCRIPTION:On 20th October at 1pm Prof. Derek Schuurman will give a semin ar entitled ‘AI\, the Biblical Narrative\, and Rival Stories’. Abstrac t: Rapid developments in AI have sparked both hopes and fears surrounding AI. Many believe that AI will accelerate progress towards some sort of Uto pia. A rival story suggests that advances in technology and AI are inevita ble and will ultimately threaten humanity. Each of these visions is inform ed by a particular worldview story. This talk will explore a vision for AI informed by the Biblical story and how Christian philosophical insights m ight help us forge more responsible technology. Despite being largely writ ten during the iron age\, the Biblical narrative remains relevant with imp lications for the age of AI. A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30pm in the Shasha Suite\, Woolf Building\, Westminster College\, Madin gley Road\, Cambridge. Please be seated by 12:50pm so that the seminar can start promptly. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=9c51b1fd -6f01-4af0-87e8-a968ca060681 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:83ab82c4-e7a4-4aa2-b74e-65712e81b388 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261020T140000 DTEND:20261020T150000 SUMMARY:Nelder Fellow lecture series – Prof Ed Bueler LOCATION:Imperial College: 658\, Huxley Building DESCRIPTION:Prof Ed Bueler (University of Alaska Fairbanks): tba\nLectures will be held on Tuesdays: 20 Oct\, 27 Oct\, 3 Nov\, 17 Nov\, at 15:00.\nA bstract: tba URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/214731/nelder-fellow-lectu re-series-prof-ed-bueler/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a03efaef-eb4e-4a3d-b962-d2010728c338 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261020T160000 DTEND:20261020T170000 SUMMARY:The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/global-lgbti CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d27751a2-d3de-48cf-a15c-8e6f581ef864 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261020T160000 DTEND:20261020T173000 SUMMARY:Frontiers in Natural Sciences: Dean’s Annual Lecture – AI and the Long Conversation of Mathematics LOCATION:Imperial College: Royal College of Music DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Frontiers in Natural Sciences: The Dean’s An nual Lecture 2026\, delivered by Geordie Williamson on the subject of ‘A I and the long conversation of mathematics’.\nThe lecture will be follow ed by a panel discussion titled ‘AI in Mathematics: What next?’. Profe ssor Williamson will be joined on the panel by Ulrike Tillmann\, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford\, Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge\, former President of LMS\, and President-Elect of the International Mathematical Union.\; Ana Caraiani\, Royal Society University Research Fellow\; and Kevin Buzzard\, Professor o f Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.\nThe in-person event is now fully booked\, however you can sign up to watch the Livestream using the ‘Register now’ button.\nAbstract\nMathematics has been called humanity ’s long conversation. Observations of Euclid\, Pythagoras\, Euler and Po incaré still occupy the minds of mathematicians today. This conversation has experienced shocks and challenges\, including the crisis of foundation s in the early 20th century\, and the first computer assisted proofs in th e second half of the 20th century. We are currently in the midst of anothe r shock\, with the rise of formal proof and the first signs of AI systems helping to produce research-level mathematics. This raises questions of fu ndamental importance: How should mathematicians respond to AI? Will AI sys tems help (or hinder) our understanding of the mathematical world? William son will discuss some recent developments at the interface of mathematics and AI\, with the aim of having a clearer picture of this unique point in the history of mathematics.\nSynopsis\nGeordie Williamson works in the str uctural side of mathematics\, and has done early work at the interface of mathematics and AI. He has made several fundamental contributions includin g his proof (with Ben Elias) of the Kazhdan-Lusztig positivity conjecture\ , his algebraic proof of the Jantzen conjectures\, and his discovery of co unter-examples to the expected bounds in the Lusztig conjecture in modular representation theory. This last result came as a shock to a whole commun ity of researchers\, and has since shifted the focus away from old conject ures.\nFor his work he has been awarded the Chevalley Prize of the America n Mathematical Society\, the European Mathematics Society Prize\, the Clay Research Award\, the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics (with Ben Elias)\, the Chauvenet Prize and two ICBS Frontiers of Science Awards. He addresse d the International Congress of Mathematicians as a plenary speaker in 201 8\, and as a public speaker in 2022 and 2026. More recently\, he was award ed an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship and the Max Planck H umboldt Research Award.\nSchedule\n16:30: Lecture Theatre Doors Open\n17:0 0: Introduction\n17:05: Geordie Williamson: AI and the Long Conversation of Mathematics\n17:45: Panel Session\n18:10: Closing Remarks\n18:15: Re ception in the Carolean & 1851 Courtyard\nFrontiers in Natural Sciences: D ean’s Annual Lecture\nEstablished in 2022\, the Dean’s Lecture explore s the breadth and variety of activity at the frontiers of natural sciences .\nThis annual lecture series sees world-renowned speakers\, who are chose n by each department in the Faculty\, discuss the future of science and th e fundamental work that underpins our most ambitious endeavours. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/211117/frontiers-in-natura l-sciences-deans-annual-lecture-ai-and-the-long-conversation-of-mathematic s/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b7f964b2-c72e-4892-b5b7-71fe324c3d90 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261020T163000 DTEND:20261020T200000 SUMMARY:Technology Leader Speaker Series with Omar Mir | How to succeed in the messy world of AI LOCATION:Imperial College: Business School\, Imperial Business School DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Omar Mir\, Baron of Thorntoun\ , a leading figure in artificial intelligence and advanced technologies\nP rofessor Peter Todd\, Dean of Imperial Business School\, is delighted to welcome Omar Mir\, Advisory Board member and Visiting Professor of Pract ice at Imperial Business School and King’s Trust International Advis or on AI and Advanced Technology\, to the first event in our Technology L eader Speaker Series.\nAbout the event\nOmar Mir\, Principal Benefactor a nd Founding Principal of the King’s Trust International Campaign “Gene ration Potential” and International Board Member at World Wide Technol ogy\, will join Peter Todd\, Dean of the Business School\, to explore the keys to success when faced with the reality of artificial intelligence in the boardroom.\nYou might expect a masterclass in AI futures\, but actuall y\, we’re dissecting the messy\, political\, limited present\, and the h undreds of millions in potential revenue available when you get it right. Having built an $18 billion AI infrastructure business from scratch\, work ing in partnership with corporations such as Google and Microsoft\, as wel l as AI companies Anthropic\, AMD and OpenAI\, Omar knows this from person al experience.\nNavigating bureaucracy and legal frameworks – and the h uman gatekeepers in charge of them – is one of the biggest challenges fa ced by business leaders when it comes to introducing cutting-edge technolo gy to centuries-old institutions. Drawing on his decades of experience\, O mar will guide attendees towards success by exploring crucial questions\, including:\n\nWhy most AI programmes fail\,\n\n\nWhat actually happens whe n boards decide on major AI investments\,\n\n\nWhich skills matter most\,\ n\n\nAnd what commercial pressures mean for technical integrity.\n\nFollow ing the discussion\, join us for a networking reception with refreshments where you can connect with peers and future leaders.\nThis launches our T echnology Leader Speaker Series\, bringing prominent technology leaders fr om across Europe and beyond to Imperial Business School.\nAgenda\n\n17.30 – 18.00: Arrival and registration at the main entrance of Imperial Busi ness School\n18.00 – 19.30: Conversation between Peter Todd and Omar M ir\, followed by an audience Q&A\n19.30 – 21.00: Networking reception URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212402/technology-leader-s peaker-series-with-omar-mir-how-to-succeed-in-the-messy-world-of-ai/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a597733c-4d21-4866-a8c1-fe7fa3c1d951 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261020T173000 DTEND:20261020T184500 SUMMARY:Can multilateralism survive the planetary crises? LOCATION:SOAS: SOAS Gallery Building URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/can-multilateralism-survi ve-planetary-crises CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5072f662-5d37-4ef9-9f35-4742094d2080 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261021T160000 DTEND:20261021T170000 SUMMARY:Why Is There Music? LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/why-music CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22f5917b-6348-45c9-96fa-0c891643128e SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261021T180000 DTEND:20261021T190000 SUMMARY:Unique Humans in a Strange Universe LOCATION:Cambridge University: Christ's College DESCRIPTION:This term's Faraday Institute public lecture will be held on W ednesday 21st October at 6pm in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre\, Christ’s Coll ege. The speaker will be the 2026 Templeton Prize laureate Prof. Simon Con way Morris and his talk is entitled ‘Unique Humans in a Strange Universe ’. It will be followed by a drinks reception and bookstall. Prof. Conway Morris\, a groundbreaking palaeontologist at the University of Cambridge\ , has been awarded the 2026 Templeton Prize for his outstanding contributi ons to the field of evolutionary biology and his enduring efforts to explo re the broader human implications of his scientific discoveries. The Templ eton Prize was established in 1972 by Sir John Templeton to recognise disc overies that yielded new insights about religion. You can read more at htt ps://www.templetonprize.org/professor-simon-conway-morris-receives-2026-te mpleton-prize/. Although the live event is only open to in-person attendee s\, a recording will be made and published on The Faraday Institute's webs ite and YouTube channel shortly afterwards. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=a082c983 -1cd4-47fa-8b8b-f6ebebd20d88 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ae37c5e5-3276-40e7-b945-77f55c05304c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261021T170000 DTEND:20261021T190000 SUMMARY:“Japanese cozy fiction”\, does it make sense? LOCATION:SOAS: Russell Square: College Buildings URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/japanese-cozy-fiction-doe s-it-make-sense CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10d63763-8ae6-4780-9fcd-230d08a509c6 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261022T150000 DTEND:20261022T160000 SUMMARY:Crick Lecture | Nate Goehring LOCATION:The Francis Crick Institute: The Francis Crick Institute URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/crick-lecture-nate-goehring CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a3855fbe-a2ed-4a5b-b256-8f6be4c552d9 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261022T160000 DTEND:20261022T170000 SUMMARY:Plato on Truth\, Lies and Power LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/plato-truth CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:61f12cac-88f0-4347-8646-95168987936c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261022T173000 DTEND:20261022T190000 SUMMARY:Living Water: A Conversation on Change\, Connection and Aquatic Li fe LOCATION:Cambridge University: Cambridge University Library DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special public conversation inspired by the Livi ng Water: Poetry\, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers exhibition at Cambri dge University Library and Pembroke College. Water shapes our planet\, sus tains life\, and connects people\, places\, and ecosystems. Yet rivers\, l akes\, wetlands\, and oceans are undergoing unprecedented change. This eve nt brings together researchers from the University of Cambridge's Water an d Life Research Focus to explore how water supports life\, how humans rela te to aquatic environments\, and how research is helping us understand and respond to a rapidly changing world. The discussion will range from the o rigins and future of aquatic life to the cultural importance of water and the challenges posed by environmental change. Panellists will share insigh ts from their research and reflect on how their work has shaped their own understanding of nature\, resilience\, and our relationship with the livin g world. This is an opportunity to hear directly from leading researchers\ , engage with ideas inspired by the Living Water exhibition\, and join a w ider conversation about the future of our waters and the life they sustain . Panellists Dr Mark Wormald (Chair): Writer\, naturalist and exhibition c urator Dr Emilia Santos NERC: Independent Research Fellow and Assistant Pr ofessor\, Department of Zoology Professor Melody Clark: Project Leader for the Adaptations Group at the British Antarctic Survey Dr Tom Worthington: Head of Global Coastal Wetlands at the Department of Plant Sciences\, Uni versity of Cambridge. Questions from the audience As this event is designe d as a conversation\, we warmly welcome questions from attendees. If there is something you would like the panel to discuss\, please send your quest ion in advance to: participatory-research@bio.cam.ac.uk We will endeavour to incorporate audience questions into the discussion and question-and-ans wer session. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=a28551bd -568f-48cb-819c-5a75afa32fc7 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8e54f651-cc5f-4eaf-9809-62fc25ea0afd SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261023T170000 DTEND:20261023T190000 SUMMARY:Graham Storey lecture with Eleanor Catton LOCATION:Cambridge University: Howard Theatre\, Downing College DESCRIPTION:In this lecture Eleanor will examine the uniquely dual relatio nship between first-person narration and plot as exemplified in the novels of the Brontë sisters\, from Anne’s diaries and letters to Emily’s f rames and Charlotte’s confidences and suppressions\, exploring the ways in which the first person brings narration itself into the realm of dramat ic action and productively exploits the tension between what appears to ha ve been fated and what appears to have been willed. Eleanor Catton is the author of three novels: The Rehearsal\, The Luminaries\, which won the 201 3 Booker Prize\, and Birnam Wood. As a screenwriter\, she adapted The Lumi naries for television and Jane Austen's Emma for a 2020 feature film starr ing Anya Taylor-Joy. Born in Canada\, she grew up in New Zealand and now l ives in Cambridge. There will also be a drinks reception after the lecture . Tickets are free and all students\, staff and alumni of the University w elcome. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=b0f357fe -0401-4c21-8e0a-f128f6a1c8e1 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e03b9846-4d31-4555-8da3-ee7c1cd15b7e SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261024T110000 DTEND:20261024T150000 SUMMARY:Pure Poison LOCATION:Wellcome Collection: The Forum URL;VALUE=URI:https://wellcomecollection.org/events/aqkRpREAACoAkBax CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:288e5212-2770-40af-b258-c43f2ea2227c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261026T180000 DTEND:20261026T190000 SUMMARY:How True Stories Make Us Care LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/true-stories CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:59d0dc9e-6a22-4574-8bbf-deab0a60f39e SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261027T130000 DTEND:20261027T140000 SUMMARY:Agri-food market concentration: measurement\, archetypes\, causal patterns and implications LOCATION:Birkbeck\, University of London: Online URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/65732/agri-food-market-co ncentration-measurement-archetypes-causal-patterns-and-implications CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:75f86eb9-15ca-4c23-8ac9-3396a5511ecd SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261027T173000 DTEND:20261027T203000 SUMMARY:Grantham Institute Annual Lecture 2026 with Anne Hidalgo LOCATION:Imperial College: LT200\, City and Guilds Building DESCRIPTION:Progress in the face of pushback\n​Around the world\, the le aders driving the most ambitious climate action are increasingly finding t hemselves at the centre of political polarisation\, misinformation campaig ns\, and public backlash. Yet history shows that transformative change has rarely been achieved by following the path of least resistance. From rede signing cities and defending climate science to challenging vested interes ts\, bold leadership often demands the willingness to go against the grain and withstand intense scrutiny.\n​In this keynote address\, Anne Hidalg o\, former Mayor of Paris\, Global Ambassador for the Global Covenant of M ayors and one of Europe’s most influential urban climate leaders\, will reflect on her experience leading the transformation of one of the world ’s largest cities. From reclaiming streets for people and expanding acti ve transport to tackling air pollution and embedding climate resilience in to urban planning\, she will examine how sustained political opposition an d misinformation became defining features of delivering change. Drawing on lessons from Paris\, Hidalgo will explore what it takes to build trust\, maintain conviction under pressure\, and deliver tangible benefits of ambi tious climate action.\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\n\nTime\n\n\nActivity\n\n\n\n17:30 – 18:00\nRegistration\n\n\n18:00 – 19:30\nTalks\n\n\n19:30 – 20:30\n Drinks reception\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\nAnne Hidalgo\n​In 2014\, Anne Hidalg o became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Paris\, after serving as F irst Deputy Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014. A member of the Socialist Pa rty\, she had graduated with a Master of Advanced Studies in social law be fore becoming a labour inspector and going on to serve as an adviser to th ree Ministers under the Lionel Jospin Government. In 2020\, she was re-ele cted Mayor of Paris\, with an ambitious programme designed to transform Pa ris into a zero-carbon city by 2050. She successfully led Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. As Mayor of Paris until March 2026\, Anne Hidalgo pursued an ambitious policy agenda focused on housing for families and universal\, inclusive public services\, working to impro ve air quality\, combat climate change and adapt the city to the climate c hallenge\, reducing car use\, greening public spaces and prioritising pede strians. She fulfilled a promise first made in 1988 to make the Seine swim mable again\, ending a ban that had been in place for over a century. She has equally championed these issues on the international stage. In Decembe r 2015 in Paris\, she organised the climate summit for local leaders\, a m ajor side event of COP21. She chaired the C40 Cities Leadership Group and served as President of the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF) and Co-Chair of the World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). Today\, she continues in her role as Global Ambassador of the Global Covenant of Mayors\, working on climate leadership with may ors around the world.\nMore speakers TBA – Register for updates\n \nWat ch Grantham Institute’s previous Annual Lectures on our YouTube playlist URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/213510/grantham-institute- annual-lecture-2026-with-anne-hidalgo/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27dab04d-2f08-45e3-9420-dc16fc69acf9 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261027T180000 DTEND:20261027T190000 SUMMARY:Rethinking Deterrence for a Disrupted World LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/rethinking-deterrence CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8c68a339-6374-4189-882c-29b3c30456e4 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261028T180000 DTEND:20261028T190000 SUMMARY:Around the World with Indian Cinema LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/indian-cinema CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5ab60fcb-fab3-4d75-bf1a-56627cd5343c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261028T183000 DTEND:20261028T193000 SUMMARY:See Buildings Differently LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/10 /see-buildings-differently/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9789e1e7-f0f8-46ff-a665-ad0747352e7b SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261029T160000 DTEND:20261029T170000 SUMMARY:Crick Lecture | 2026 Honess Lecture - Zhijian "James" Chen LOCATION:The Francis Crick Institute: The Francis Crick Institute URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/crick-lecture-2026-honess-l ecture-zhijian-james-chen CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:98506aed-de46-4ef6-a319-40b135c08ad1 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261029T190000 DTEND:20261029T200000 SUMMARY:The Genocide in Gaza and Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Childr en LOCATION:SOAS: SOAS Gallery URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/genocide-gaza-and-israels -deliberate-targeting-children CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ef290464-350c-4589-aed7-be9cb5057d12 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261030T100000 DTEND:20261030T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition: The beauty of the Earth LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/06 /exhibition-the-beauty-of-the-earth/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2bb236c1-4f40-49cc-8002-7c680d44eca6 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261101T140000 DTEND:20261101T153000 SUMMARY:GLOBAL CULTURES: MANZAI LECTURE AND WORKSHOP 1 NOV 2026 LOCATION:Cambridge University: West Court Jesus College DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to invite you to a one-off manzai lecture an d workshop at Jesus College with Manu Shimaoka\, Shira-chan\, and Yumi Fuj ita (Team Franpone)\, visiting from Japan. Tickets are available below. Ma nzai is a traditional Japanese comedy style with two performers: the “BO KE” (funny one) and the “TUKKOMI” (traditional man). The BOKE amuses the audience with silly remarks\, unexpected actions\, or surprising stat ements. In contrast\, the TSUKKOMI acts as the logical counterpart\, corre cting the BOKE?s antics and steering the conversation. Their dynamic inter action and playful exchanges create the humour that defines MANZAI. The ev ent will introduce manzai and its various forms. While the talk will be in English\, some Japanese words will also be introduced to help learn some Japanese vocab\, as you create your own manzai comedy skits. Running order : 1. Introduction & Explanation of Manzai (15 minutes): Participants learn about the performers and the basics of manzai\, a traditional Japanese co medy style. 2. Forming Duos & Choosing Team Names (15 minutes): Participan ts pair up and decide on creative team names. 3. Creating a 3-Line Skit (1 5 minutes): Each duo writes a short manzai routine\, focusing on humorous exchanges between the “boke” and “tsukkomi” roles. 4. Performing S kits (15 minutes): Participants present their skits to the group\, showcas ing their comedic creativity. 5. Q&A (30 mins) URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=d444df1f -ddd9-4446-bdff-df1b4dc792ea CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b672ef58-6ddf-4a43-9cd1-d9e05cc9d3c1 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261101T160000 DTEND:20261101T190000 SUMMARY:GLOBAL CULTURES: AN AFTERNOON WITH TIM STAFFEL 1 NOV 2026 LOCATION:Cambridge University: West Court Jesus College DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to host author and screenwriter Tim Staffel for an afternoon of readings\, film\, and discussion. Tickets will be made available below. Running order 4pm Intro 4.05pm Readings hosted by Tim St affel and Maren de Vincent-Humphreys 5pm Interval 5.15pm Westerland screen ing 6.45pm Q&A with Tim Staffel 7pm Event ends About Tim Staffel Tim Staff el is a German author and director of several radio plays. He studied Appl ied Theater Studies in Gießen and has taught Scenic Arts at the Universit y of Hildesheim. His novel Terrordrom was adapted for the stage and direct ed by Frank Castorf at Berlin’s Volksbühne in 1998. Tim Staffel also wr ote and directed the film Westerland\, which was shown at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival. H is latest novel Wasserspiel was published in 2025. He is currently a write r in residence at the Queen Mary University of London. Westerland 2012 (15 ) 90m Set on the cold\, deserted island of Sylt in winter\, Westerland fol lows Cem\, a disciplined young trainee at the local authorities\, and Jes ús\, a drifting stranger who invents a lot of stories. When Cem finds Jes ús on the brink of suicide\, he takes him home\, and an intense\, tender relationship develops between them. As Cem becomes increasingly determined to save Jesús\, his carefully planned life begins to unravel. Their grow ing dependence isolates them from friends\, family and reality itself. Aga inst Sylt’s stark\, melancholic landscape in winter\, Tim Staffel’s fi lm explores love\, loneliness and co-dependency\, asking how far we can go to save someone we love. About Maren de Vincent-Humphreys Maren de Vincen t-Humphreys is a Fellow\, Tutor and Director of Studies at Jesus College. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=a9890bea -cf1c-4956-bdb5-69034bd9b280 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4bd6df3e-9b46-4fa2-8fce-6c99e0b828da SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261103T130000 DTEND:20261103T140000 SUMMARY:Embodiment as a Scientific and Theological Reality LOCATION:Cambridge University: Westminster College DESCRIPTION:On 3rd November at 1pm Prof. Robin Morris will give a seminar entitled ‘Embodiment as a Scientific and Theological Reality’. Abstrac t: Western philosophical thought has been significantly influenced by subs tance dualism\, which posits that the ‘soul’ or ‘mind’ exists as a distinct entity separate from the body. This perspective contrasts with a growing movement in contemporary cognitive neuroscience that emphasises t he embodied nature of cognition. Rather than viewing the mind as an indepe ndent entity that interacts with the body through sensorimotor systems\, t his approach integrates the two from both phylogenetic and ontogenetic per spectives. Additionally\, an embodiment of God is evident in both the Old and New Testaments\, making it an important aspect of Christian belief. Th e talk explores how these two areas of understanding converge to provide a more comprehensive Christian concept of the divine and the imago Dei in h umans. A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30pm in the Shasha Suite\, Woolf Building\, Westminster College\, Madingley Road\, Cambridge. Please be seated by 12:50pm so that the seminar can start promptly. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=0446ea9f -1e1e-4606-8170-6f79de4fd3f9 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ac175b76-9294-40f3-8c9f-dad71a06ca8c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261103T170000 DTEND:20261103T180000 SUMMARY:Psychiatrist\, Pharmacist\, Executioner: The social life of acute behavioural disturbance LOCATION:Birkbeck\, University of London: Birkbeck Main Building\, Malet S treet URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/64392/psychiatrist-pharma cist-executioner-the-social-life-of-acute-behavioural-disturbance CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a42303a7-164f-46f7-b4c0-2916a93017b7 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261103T180000 DTEND:20261103T190000 SUMMARY:The Master’s Book Club: Prof. Sharon Peacock in conversation wit h Prof. Sir Christopher Frayling\, author of 'The Hollywood History of Art ' LOCATION:Cambridge University: Churchill College DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from Churchill College Fellow and alumnus Prof . Sir Christopher Frayling\, writer\, broadcaster and former Rector of the Royal College of Art\, in conversation with the Master of Churchill Colle ge\, Prof. Sharon Peacock\, as they discuss his latest book ‘The Hollywo od History of Art’. Ever since the dawn of the sound era\, Hollywood has told the story of the artist\, from Charles Laughton as Rembrandt\, to Sa lma Hayek as Frida Kahlo. Dismissed by art historians as unreliable\, even fanciful\, these films reveal something else entirely: how art and artist s have entered the cultural bloodstream of modern society. In ‘The Holly wood History of Art’\, Christopher Frayling traces this fascinating stor y in full for the first time\, drawing on years of archive research and in terviews with those who made these films. He asks what Hollywood's screenw riters assumed audiences already knew about art history\, how they chose w hich artists to feature and which stars to cast\, and what impact these la rger-than-life portrayals have had on the real art world's exhibitions\, a uctions and collections. The talk will be followed by a drinks reception a t 7pm. All are welcome to attend. Prof. Sir Christopher Frayling is an awa rd-winning broadcaster and writer and Fellow and alumnus of Churchill Coll ege. He was Rector of the Royal College of Art (RCA) from 1996 to 2009 and a Professor of Cultural History at RCA for over 30 years. He was chairman of the Arts Council England\, and is the longest serving trustee of the V ictoria and Albert Museum. He was knighted in 2001 for services to art and design education. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=100a208b -dafe-4a40-a6cc-3fe77f3254fc CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fba66c18-3a92-413e-b4c7-f9385700b362 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261103T180000 DTEND:20261103T190000 SUMMARY:What History is NOT LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/history-not CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1967c490-c259-4841-ac9b-b9878ccc8a54 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261103T183000 DTEND:20261103T193000 SUMMARY:Croonian Prize Lecture: Advances in computational protein design LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11 /croonian-prize-lecture/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1c8ff4fc-5ac4-4c50-bf5e-db0c55d24f59 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261104T173000 DTEND:20261104T183000 SUMMARY:Living Code\, Living Materials LOCATION:Imperial College: Clore Lecture Theatre\, Huxley Building DESCRIPTION:Discover how Professor Tom Ellis is rewriting DNA to programme microbes to grow sustainable materials and help build a bio-based future. \n\nLiving Code\, Living Materials: How Synthetic Biology is Rewriting the Future\nAbstract:\nScience has focused on reading the code of life to und erstand how living organisms work\, but today\, bioengineers are writing t hat code. Over the past two decades\, research at Imperial College London has helped pioneer the shift from observing biology to actively designing it. By rewriting DNA in organisms like yeast and bacteria\, we can transfo rm simple microbes into programmable micro-factories. Rather than relying on petroleum-based plastics or resource-intensive manufacturing\, we can n ow engineer living cells to grow sustainable\, self-repairing materials\, from custom fabrics to functional patches\, directly from kombucha microbe s and sugar.\nThis talk explores how combining synthetic biology with mate rials engineering is opening a new frontier: Engineered Living Materials. Looking ahead\, we predict that programming nature will revolutionise sust ainable manufacturing\, food production\, and smart infrastructure\, pavin g the way for a bio-based future where we partner with nature to grow what we need. \nBiography:\nTom Ellis is Professor of Synthetic Genome Engine ering in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. For 16 years\, his research group at Imperial has pioneered international effo rts in synthetic biology\, focusing on rewriting DNA to reprogram cells to address global challenges in health\, sustainability\, and manufacturing. His lab has moved to chromosome-scale writing and is spearheading the eme rging field of Engineered Living Materials by programming safe microbes to grow sustainable fabrics and functional bio-composites. Professor Ellis i s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and works broadly to advance bioengineering for a sustainable future. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/211835/living-code-living- materials/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:83cdeae3-2430-4011-921c-7a3c0cccc646 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261104T173000 DTEND:20261104T183000 SUMMARY:Cracking the code: targeting HTLV integration to eradicate infecti on LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre G16\, Sir Alexander Fleming Bui lding DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Goedele Maertens\, Professor of Retrovirology\, to discover how existing HIV drugs could help prevent the transmission of one of the world’s most neglected viruses. \nPlease register to attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance is available here. \n We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 4 November!\nImperial Inaugural s are term-time lectures that celebrate our newest professors\, recognis ing their academic journey and showcasing their research.\nAbstract\nHTLV (Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus) infects an estimated 10 million people  worldwide\, yet remains one of the world’s most neglected human viruse s. Although it was the first retrovirus ever discovered\, it has long been overshadowed by its better-known relative\, HIV. Like HIV\, HTLV is a ret rovirus\, meaning it integrates its genetic material into the DNA of infec ted cells. As a result\, the virus persists for life\, with every daughter cell carrying the viral genome and the potential to produce new virus par ticles.  People living with HTLV may develop a range of severe\, debilit ating\, and sometimes life-threatening diseases. The infection is also ass ociated with significant stigma\, disproportionately affects women\, and c an profoundly impact patients’ social\, emotional\, and economic well- being. Despite its global burden\, the HTLV community continues to face ma jor challenges\, including limited awareness among healthcare professional s and the public\, inadequate access to affordable and reliable diagnostic tests\, and the absence of effective antiviral therapies or preventive va ccines.  For the past 15 years\, Professor Goedele Maertens has dedicate d her research to understanding how HTLV interacts with its human host. He r laboratory combines proteomics\, molecular virology\, microscopy\, and s tructural biology to investigate the mechanisms underpinning infection and persistence. Through this multidisciplinary approach\, her team has demo nstrated that FDA-approved antiretroviral drugs currently used to treat p eople living with HIV can prevent HTLV transmission in laboratory models.   Building on these findings\, Professor Maertens\, together with Dr Fab iola Martin and with the support of the International Retrovirology Associ ation (IRVA)\, established the HTLV-1 Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Wo rking Group. The group’s mission is to develop guidelines for clinical t rials that will evaluate the effectiveness of antiretroviral drugs in prev enting HTLV-1 transmission in vivo.  In this inaugural lecture\, Profess or Maertens will reflect on her personal and academic journey\, highlighti ng the discoveries that have shaped her career and her ongoing efforts to understand the mechanisms of HTLV integration and develop strategies to pr event viral transmission. \nBiography\nGoedele Maertens is a Professor in Retrovirology in the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London\, focusing on the interaction between Human T-cell lymphotropic vi rus (HTLV) and the host. HTLV-1 causes a range of debilitating and sometim es fatal diseases. In this lecture she will explore how HTLV establishes i nfection and how repurposing available HIV drugs could be a promising tool towards eliminating HTLV. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212264/cracking-the-code-t argeting-htlv-integration-to-eradicate-infection/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25de527a-1152-4d6d-a321-9627cc9946b2 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261104T180000 DTEND:20261104T190000 SUMMARY:Material Witness: Understanding the Objects of Auschwitz LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/objects-auschwitz CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:de26c8bc-c6d7-41ae-a7f1-e3f8da74c3a7 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261104T180000 DTEND:20261104T210000 SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Professor Craig Clunas LOCATION:SOAS: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)\, SOAS\, Russell Square URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/distinguished-lecture-ser ies-professor-craig-clunas CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f12d48c9-ccd1-4a21-aba8-769c5e4bb811 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261105T180000 DTEND:20261105T190000 SUMMARY:Guantanamo on the Euphrates: What Next for Detainees in Syria? LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/guantanamo-euphrates CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e0058060-28a4-4e1c-8b69-5f0525942739 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261107T150000 DTEND:20261107T170000 SUMMARY:Crime & Nourishment LOCATION:Cambridge University: Wesley Methodist Church DESCRIPTION:Join a hand-picked selection of crime writers for the afternoo n\, as they talk about their latest books - with Q&A and book signing plus tea and cake. Any author who goes over the allotted time for introducing their work shall be subject to the bell! Those pitting themselves against it this time are . . . to be announced. However tickets are available now and we advise early booking to avoid disappointment. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=9e9eed95 -5c76-406f-bf8c-c23a8f18f1bb CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ab652515-e90d-4dd7-9cce-64682b47889d SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261110T130000 DTEND:20261110T140000 SUMMARY:“A Mystery Still”: Historical (Trans) Gender Variance and Jame s “Miranda” Barry LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/trans-variance CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7d8ca443-c88c-4218-abe7-81f8a4936937 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261110T180000 DTEND:20261110T200000 SUMMARY:GLOBAL CULTURES: ISE WORKSHOP 10 NOV 2026 LOCATION:Cambridge University: West Court Jesus College DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Japan Foundation\, we’re delighted to host a special visit from Ise City\, known for the Ise Shrine—a comp lex of Shinto shrines. Every 20 years\, the old shrines are rebuilt on an adjacent plot—a project of renewal and to help keep traditional skills a live. Ahead of the next rebuild in 2027\, we will be receiving AWANISHI Ma sahiko to introduce Okihiki culture and lead a workshop for creating the Z ai used in Okihiki ceremonies. Tickets are available below. Hope you can j oin us! Running order: 18:00 Welcome and introduction 18:15 Workshop 20:00 Event ends About Ise Shine Known internationally as Ise Shrine\, Ise Jing u (officially ‘Jingu’) includes 125 jinja (Shinto shrines)\, centred a round the inner Kotaijingu Shrine (Naiku) dedicated to Amaterasu-Omikami\, and the outer Toyo’uke-daijingu Shrine (Geku) dedicated to Toyo’uke-n o-Omikami. Its area is roughly the same size as downtown Paris. More than 1\,500 rituals are conducted here every year to pray for the prosperity of the Imperial family\, the peace of the world\, and a bountiful harvest. H istory Amaterasu-Omikami was originally worshipped in the Imperial Palace by successive Emperors of Japan. However\, during the reign of the 10th Em peror Sujin\, the Holy Mirror (the symbol of Amaterasu-Omikami) was ordere d to be removed from the Imperial Palace. During the reign of the 11th Emp eror Suinin\, 2\,000 years ago\, the Emperor ordered his princess\, Yamato hime-no-mikoto\, to seek the most appropriate place to permanently enshrin e and worship Amaterasu-Omikami. Following a long search\, travelling acro ss many regions\, the princess received a revelation that Amaterasu-Omikam i should be enshrined and worshipped eternally in Ise. 500 years later\, u nder the 21st Emperor Yuryaku\, Toyo’uke-no-Omikami was also summoned\, from the north of Kyoto prefecture and enshrined in Ise\, in accordance wi th another revelation from Amaterasu-Omikami. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=a0a63e06 -43ca-493a-8339-584f5ce18c24 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cd10e5ae-934d-47d7-a938-1b422df13680 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261110T180000 DTEND:20261110T190000 SUMMARY:Building with Magnets: The Mathematics of Repulsion and Attraction LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/building-magnets CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0b3d5711-35d6-4f08-9781-498a4774e6ec SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261110T183000 DTEND:20261110T193000 SUMMARY:Michael Faraday Prize Lecture: Life in the fast lane — What the past tells us about evolution under pressure LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11 /faraday-prize-lecture/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8dc7baf3-043d-4ff7-b1f8-6a896f4e6aa1 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261111T170000 DTEND:20261111T190000 SUMMARY:IGHI Special Lecture 2026: Global Challenges\, Human Solutions LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture Theatre G16\, Sir Alexander Fleming Bui lding DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Institute of Global Health Innovation’s Spec ial Lecture online or in person. \nPlease do register your in person atte ndance by clicking the ‘Register Now’ button on the left hand side of the page. \n\n\n \n\n\nSummary\n\n\nDr Christos Christou\, surgeon and h umanitarian leader\, will discuss how medicine\, leadership and politics i ntersect in real humanitarian settings. Dr Christou will share what he has learnt from years of clinical and operational work with Médecins Sans Fr ontières\, and where he sees opportunities academic institutions to contr ibute to humanitarian medicine. \n\n\n  \n\n\nAbout the speaker\nDr Chr istos Christou is a surgeon and humanitarian leader\, and former Internati onal President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)\, a role he held from 2 019 to 2025. \nDr Christou’s career is dedicated to equitable access to care. His career includes leading Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) throug h multiple humanitarian crises\, including Ebola and COVID-19. He is also a visiting professor at Harvard.\nIn 2025\, he was one of TIME magazine’ s 100 most influential people in philanthropy. \n\n\nAbout the Institute of Global Health Innovation \nThe Institute of Global Health Innovation ( IGHI) is one of Imperial College London’s global challenge institutes. W e empower people to transform health and care.\nOur work is made possible through our seven Centres of Excellence that innovate across medicine\, po licy\, technology and design. Our Centres collaborate to share knowledge\, skills and expertise so that we can solve bigger problems and accelerate progress in healthcare.\nThe IGHI is led by Professor the Lord Ara Darzi\, who will introduce the IGHI Special Lecture. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/213463/ighi-special-lectur e-2026-global-challenges-human-solutions/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5f4b594f-3486-466b-9977-bc6d0dde1cf7 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261111T173000 DTEND:20261111T183000 SUMMARY:Beyond bits: information theory in the age of intelligent machines LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre 200\, City and Guilds Building DESCRIPTION:The ‘bit’ transformed how we compress\, transmit and store information. But as more information is produced by machines\, for machin es\, do the same rules still apply?\nProfessor Deniz Gündüz\, Professor in Information Processing\, explores how information theory can help answe r questions emerging in the age of intelligent machines. \nPlease register to attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance is availabl e here.  \nWe look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 11 November!\nImpe rial Inaugurals are term-time lectures that celebrate our newest profess ors\, recognising their academic journey and showcasing their research.\nA bstract\n\nIn 1948\, Claude Shannon established a mathematical theory for modelling and quantifying information: how much a source can be compressed \, and how much of it a noisy channel can carry. Those limits turned commu nication from a craft into a science\, and everything digital: the Interne t\, mobile telephony\, data storage\, has since been built around them. Sh annon also gave us the ‘bit’: common currency of the information age\, which let compression\, transmission\, computation and security be trea ted as four separate problems\, solved by different engineers. \nSoon\, m ost of the information crossing our networks will be produced by intellige nt machines\, for other intelligent machines. How will billions of them co mmunicate with each other: must they agree on a language in advance\, or c an they learn one? And do those old boundaries still make sense\, when a n etwork can compute\, a compressor can learn\, and the whole chain from sen sor to decision can be trained as one? \n\nBiography\nDeniz Gündüz is P rofessor of Information Processing at Imperial College London\, where he l eads the Information Processing and Communications Lab. In his inaugural l ecture he will argue that information theory is still the right instrument for answering such questions\, drawing on his group’s work on machines that learn their own codes and protocols\; private and secure computation\ , in which machines compute together without revealing what they hold\; wi reless image and video transmission that degrades gracefully rather than f ailing outright\; and compression by neural networks that learn from a sin gle signal. He will close on the question behind all of it: how far does i nformation theory reach into an age of intelligent machines? URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212280/beyond-bits-informa tion-theory-in-the-age-of-intelligent-machines/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fb72bf74-c9e0-4f59-adac-6baa2d12d6a2 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261111T180000 DTEND:20261111T190000 SUMMARY:The Cost of Sustainability: Archaeology and Maritime Dispossession in the Eastern Mediterranean LOCATION:Birkbeck\, University of London: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/64077/the-cost-of-sustain ability-archaeology-and-maritime-dispossession-in-the-eastern-mediterranea n CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1564aea2-8baa-4199-a9f0-7a3652eac5d1 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261111T190000 DTEND:20261111T200000 SUMMARY:Our Sun\, Our Star LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sun-star CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8c72d5b8-e4fc-4601-8b2e-7e869f2499c0 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261112T130000 DTEND:20261112T140000 SUMMARY:How Did Our Garden Grow? The History of Hatton Gardens LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/garden-grow CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:af80f08a-7d95-4529-babd-eb86edfb2d3b SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261112T160000 DTEND:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Crick Lecture | Philippa Matthews LOCATION:The Francis Crick Institute: The Francis Crick Institute URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/crick-lecture-philippa-matt hews CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a7e2611d-9b85-4d68-8aca-bf5e89706012 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261112T183000 DTEND:20261112T193000 SUMMARY:Milner Prize Lecture: Highlights from 40 years of complexity theor y LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11 /milner-prize-lecture/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:59f2a2c3-df7d-4906-882d-0ab9a4a6f83a SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261117T130000 DTEND:20261117T140000 SUMMARY:Wisdom\, Women and Sustainability: Ecological insights from ancien t texts LOCATION:Cambridge University: Westminster College DESCRIPTION:On 17th November at 1pm Dr Hilary Marlow will give a seminar e ntitled ‘Wisdom\, Women and Sustainability: Ecological insights from anc ient texts’. Abstract: The world so often seems blind to the effects of human-generated ecological issues and deaf to the struggle for survival fa cing so many. Sustained economic growth is often the primary driver in pol itical discourse\, and competition and innovation are prioritised over con cern for the planet and its most vulnerable inhabitants. Despite our moder n advances\, we have lost much of the wisdom and knowledge about living we ll and nurturing life that was passed on from generation to generation. As we face up to the catastrophic consequences of our inaction and ignorance \, what might the wisdom teaching of ancient texts in the Hebrew Bible and later Jewish traditions have to say? This talk will explore the unique ro le of Woman Wisdom in these texts and examine ways in which the theologica l and ethical frameworks they espouse is relevant today. A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30pm in the Shasha Suite\, Woolf Building\, Westminster College\, Madingley Road\, Cambridge. Please be seated by 12: 50pm so that the seminar can start promptly. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/detail.shtml?uid=76985261 -dd81-46f6-8b2e-2a4770e2b283 CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9822de06-1f6b-48f3-a90c-bb3e85901078 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261117T130000 DTEND:20261117T140000 SUMMARY:GIS Seminar - Jan Falkowski (University of Warsaw\, Poland) LOCATION:Birkbeck\, University of London: Online URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/65752/gis-seminar-jan-fal kowski-university-of-warsaw-poland CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:daf143f0-e8b1-4649-81dc-669fe2c1cac1 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261118T130000 DTEND:20261118T140000 SUMMARY:Love's Transcendence in the Poetry of John Donne\, George Herbert and RS Thomas LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/transcendence-poetry CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ccdcf741-7b86-429f-b534-ce674327b549 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261118T170000 DTEND:20261118T193000 SUMMARY:Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lecture 2026 – Towards Solar Fuels and Fe rtilisers LOCATION:Imperial College: B10\, Lecture Theatre\, Molecular Sciences Rese arch Hub (MSRH) DESCRIPTION:Towards Solar Fuels and Fertilisers: Managing Proton and Elect ron Currency through Molecular Design\nLife runs on electrons and protons. Together\, or as hydrogen-atom equivalents\, they allow plants to store s olar energy\, underpin the fuels that power society\, and help make the fe rtilisers needed to sustain life.\n\n\nSimply put\, hydrogen atoms decorat e many of the key molecular building blocks of our world. Chemists would l ike to harness this same basic currency to make fuels\, fertilisers\, and other useful molecules using renewable electricity or light.\nThe challeng e is control. Protons and electrons readily combine to make hydrogen gas\, often more easily than they can be directed toward other molecules. Learn ing how to steer them selectively is therefore a central problem in modern catalysis.\nProfessor Peters’ laboratory is developing new strategies t o control this proton-and-electron currency using catalysts\, electricity\ , and light. In this lecture\, you will gain an understanding of the broad er vision behind this work\, emphasising one particularly demanding and co nsequential reaction: converting nitrogen from the air into ammonia.\n\nSp eaker bio:\nJonas C. Peters is Bren Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Techn ology. His research focuses on new concepts for catalysis (including elect ro- and photocatalysis) with applications in renewable solar fuel technolo gies\, distributed nitrogen fixation for fertilisers and fuels\, and chemi cal transformations fundamental to the synthesis of organic molecules. Pet ers earned his BSc degree at the University of Chicago (’93)\, spent a y ear as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Nottingham (’94)\, did hi s PhD at MIT (’98)\, and a postdoc as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley ( ’99). He has been on the faculty at Caltech since 1999\, including a bri ef period on the faculty at MIT. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212275/sir-geoffrey-wilkin son-lecture-2026/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6735cc92-0bde-438b-946f-c53267ad85ad SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261118T173000 DTEND:20261118T183000 SUMMARY:Seeing signalling: cells\, receptors\, and metabolism LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre 200\, City and Guilds Building DESCRIPTION:Trillions of cells constantly sense and respond to the world a round them\, but how do we see these hidden processes in action?\nProfesso r Alejandra Tomas Catala\, Professor of Cell Biology\, reveals how new tec hnologies are helping us understand the signals that regulate metabolism\, and what they could mean for tackling diseases such as diabetes. \nPlease register to attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance is available here. \nWe look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 18 November !\nImperial Inaugurals are term-time lectures that celebrate our newest Professors\, recognising their academic journey and showcasing their resea rch.\nAbstract\n\nEvery moment of our lives\, trillions of cells are makin g decisions. They sense nutrients\, hormones\, and signals from their surr oundings\, interpreting this information to regulate growth\, energy use\, and survival. These cellular conversations underpin everything from healt hy development to disease responses. Yet many of the most important signal ling processes occur on scales invisible to the naked eye\, raising a fund amental question: how can we observe how cells “see” and respond to the world around them?\nAdvances in molecular biology\, imaging\, and quan titative approaches have transformed our ability to uncover these hidden p rocesses. By revealing how receptors detect signals and how cells translat e them into functional responses\, researchers are uncovering the mechanis ms that maintain health and the pathways that become disrupted in diseas e\, including in metabolic disorders such as diabetes. Understanding these processes is not only deepening our knowledge of fundamental cell biology but also creating new opportunities for therapeutic intervention. \n\n\n  Professor Alejandra Tomas Catala is a Professor of Cell Biology at Imper ial College London. Her research focuses on the signalling pathways that r egulate the function of cells with critical roles in human metabolism. In her inaugural lecture\, she will explore how cells detect and interpret mo lecular signals\, the technologies that allow us to visualise these proces ses in unprecedented detail\, and what these discoveries reveal about the regulation of metabolic health and disease. \n\n\n\nDrawing on examples f rom her own research and developments across the wider field\, she will di scuss receptors\, intracellular signalling networks\, metabolic regulation \, and the future of imaging-based approaches for understanding cell funct ion and developing new treatments. \n\nBiography\nProfessor Alejandra To mas is a Professor of Cell Biology and Head of Section of Cell Biology and Functional Genomics at the Dept of Metabolism\, Digestion and Reproductio n\, Imperial College London. Her research leverages advanced molecular c ell biology and multiomic strategies to uncover novel regulators and sig nalling modalities for the glucagon receptor family of class B1 GPCRs. By integrating insights from high resolution microscopy\, pharmacology\, gene tics\, and structural biology\, her group has identified new pathways an d approaches to modulate receptor signalling\, offering opportunities to o ptimise their therapeutic potential in metabolic diseases such as obesity\ , diabetes\, and MASLD. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212297/seeing-signalling-c ells-receptors-and-metabolism/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c3894f4c-56ea-4f29-8118-bfa373515057 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261118T180000 DTEND:20261118T190000 SUMMARY:Speaking Through Othello: Black Performance and the Training of Fe eling LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/speaking-othello CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25c173f3-54c9-4d0e-9ca2-06fa06a5f0f7 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261118T183000 DTEND:20261118T193000 SUMMARY:Birkbeck's Leading Voices - An Evening with Sir Ed Davey MP in con versation with Professor David Latchman CBE LOCATION:Birkbeck\, University of London: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/65352/birkbecks-leading-v oices-an-evening-with-sir-ed-davey-mp-in-conversation-with-professor-david -latchman-cbe CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ffd7e7a8-200a-4be7-afbb-00e543094108 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261119T180000 DTEND:20261119T190000 SUMMARY:Life\, Death and Bubbles: The Story of Earth’s Nitrogen LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/earths-nitrogen CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a27c0fe6-60c8-4e34-ac34-8114c4734b27 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261119T190000 DTEND:20261119T203000 SUMMARY:Lost Women of Science Conversations: Hertha Ayrton - Electrical En gineer Extraordinaire LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11 /lost-women-of-science-conversations/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7e3dd947-6843-4957-b3cc-56cfdaba9851 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261120T093000 DTEND:20261120T170000 SUMMARY:Science narratives and the public LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11 /science-narratives-and-the-public/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dc3ec28c-4ca6-4956-861c-53999fa43beb SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261120T190000 DTEND:20261120T200000 SUMMARY:The Advent of Christianity and its Impact on the Legacy of Zoroast rianism in Georgia LOCATION:SOAS: SOAS Gallery URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/advent-christianity-and-i ts-impact-legacy-zoroastrianism-georgia CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7a88768f-5c4b-465e-9c01-52ac72588b72 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261124T180000 DTEND:20261124T190000 SUMMARY:Sixteenth-Century London Dialect: How Londoners Spoke in Sir Thoma s Gresham’s Time LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/london-dialect CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e789a71e-e9ce-48ad-a0fb-1e4ce12acd40 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261124T183000 DTEND:20261124T193000 SUMMARY:See Healthcare Differently LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11 /see-healthcare-differently/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4395a052-dfe8-4221-a598-19b115e0314d SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261125T173000 DTEND:20261125T183000 SUMMARY:Numerics for finance: from stochastics to quantum LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre 200\, City and Guilds Building DESCRIPTION:How are financial models built from complex and uncertain data \, and what tools do we need to make sense of them? \nProfessor Jack Jacqu ier\, Professor of Mathematics\, brings together the theory and applicatio n of mathematical finance\, from stochastic analysis and numerical modelli ng to the potential of quantum computing. \nPlease register to attend in p erson. A live stream link for online attendance is available here.  \nWe look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 25 November!\nImperial Inaugurals  are term-time lectures that celebrate our newest professors\, recognisi ng their academic journey and showcasing their research.\nAbstract\n\nMath ematical Finance deals with providing rigorous theoretical foundations and numerical tools to understand and manage financial data. In this sense\, it is both extremely applied and deeply theoretical. Financial data are ch aracterised by uncertainty (in the dynamics of a share price\, in the beha viour of market participants) and time evolution\, thus finding in Stochas tic Analysis the perfect set of tools.\nProfessor Jacquier’s research ha s been wandering between these two worlds\, often kept separate. This lect ure will aim at showing how financial models are built\, starting from dat a\, and juggling with the theoretical tools as they are brought along by n ecessity. We will highlight the richness of Mathematical Finance as a wide ly encompassing field\, required tools as diverse as stochastic analysis \, sub-Riemannian geometry and numerical analysis.\nAs the Finance world is always on the lookout for new technologies and new tools (to handle la rger datasets\, to improve customers’ security\, …)\, we will pave the way for the future of the field\, in particular showing how Quantum Compu ting might come to the rescue of some computational challenges.\n\nBiograp hy\nJack Jacquier is a Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London . His research focuses on stochastic analysis and volatility modelling in mathematical finance\, as well as quantum computing algorithms.  Profess or Jacquier also serves as a scientific consultant and advisor to various finance and technology companies. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212320/numerics-for-financ e-from-stochastics-to-quantum/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7a5b6c01-39ea-4ac7-8e6f-bc138175a618 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261125T180000 DTEND:20261125T190000 SUMMARY:Musical Myths and Miracles LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/musical-myths CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:21882ce0-540d-4747-9a78-f8d39824a865 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261126T173000 DTEND:20261126T183000 SUMMARY:The Life Cycle of a Holiday LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/life-holiday CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6c08c398-b61b-4e3e-b25d-b4ce27c19f4d SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261130T180000 DTEND:20261130T190000 SUMMARY:The Romantic History of Copyright LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/romantic-copyright CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aa0f81ad-c8fd-4a55-b64a-09b1605badb9 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261201T130000 DTEND:20261201T140000 SUMMARY:Beyond Vote Buying: Clientelism and the Exchange Model of Politics LOCATION:Birkbeck\, University of London: Online URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/65772/beyond-vote-buying- clientelism-and-the-exchange-model-of-politics CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2db51e29-f816-4eb4-8f84-d05a6d06ba2c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261201T180000 DTEND:20261201T190000 SUMMARY:AI as Muse? Creativity\, Provocation and Human Ownership LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/ai-muse CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bcf7adc3-b5f9-4dd0-930c-8c23f2a1c239 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261202T173000 DTEND:20261202T183000 SUMMARY:Who creates\, who captures? Value\, power\, and the future of digi tal ecosystems LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre 200\, City and Guilds Building DESCRIPTION:Digital platforms have transformed how we work\, create and co nsume. Professor Tobias Kretschmer\, Professor of Strategy\, Technology an d Organisation at Imperial Business School\, sheds light on the shifting b alance of power between platforms and creators and what AI and regulation could mean for the digital economy. \nPlease register to attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance is available here. \nWe look fo rward to seeing you on Wednesday 2 December!\nImperial Inaugurals are te rm-time lectures that celebrate our newest Professors\, recognising their academic journey and showcasing their research.\nAbstract\nDigital platfor ms — from app stores and music streaming to freelance marketplaces — h ave become the defining economic infrastructure of our time\, shaping what we watch\, what we pay\, and who gets to participate in the digital eco nomy. Conventional thinking tends to focus on the power of platform owners \, treating the developers\, artists\, and creators who populate these eco systems as small and passive participants who simply accept the rules they are given. However\, this view overlooks the growing strategic power of c omplementors and the increasingly contested nature of value in digital eco systems. \nIn this inaugural lecture\, Professor Tobias Kretschmer examin es who truly creates value in the digital economy — and who captures it. Drawing on a decade of empirical research\, he explores how the relations hip between platforms and complementors is shifting from passive participa tion to active negotiation\, and what the rise of artificial intelligence\ , data ownership\, and regulation means for the future of digital competit ion. \nBiography\nTobias Kretschmer is a Professor of Strategy\, Technolo gy and Organisation at Imperial College London and a Research Fellow at th e Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Prior to joining Imperial Co llege\, Tobias was a Professor of Management at LMU Munich and previously held full-time positions at LSE and INSEAD\, and visiting positions at Uni versity College London\, Bocconi University\, HEC Paris and the Universi ty of Southern Denmark. He holds a licentiate in Management from the Unive rsity of St. Gallen and a PhD in Economics from London Business School. He enjoys cooking and running and is a season-ticket holder for Dulwich Haml et FC. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212662/who-creates-who-cap tures-value-power-and-the-future-of-digital-ecosystems/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5094628d-fd7c-4756-b3ce-c4b6dae109f6 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261202T173000 DTEND:20261202T183000 SUMMARY:33rd Annual Roger W.H. Sargent Lecture LOCATION:Imperial College: ACE250 LT1\, ACE Extension DESCRIPTION:Direct Air Capture in support of a Circular Carbon Economy\nOu r current liquid fossil fuel infrastructure is a linear progression from w ell to wheel to atmospheric CO2.  This infrastructure is very efficient\, globally interlinked and has developed over a century of practice.  How can we leverage this infrastructure in the context of the energy transitio n from fossil resources to renewables? Where does it provide distinct adva ntages relative to infrastructure that moves electrons rather than hydroca rbons?  In this talk I will address some of the challenges and opportunit ies with the integration of renewable energy and direct air carbon capture to produce synthetic hydrocarbons that circularize our technological carb on cycle.\nBiography\nProfessor Realff (BChE\, Imperial College\, U.K.\, P h.D. ChE\, MIT\, U.S.A) is the David Wang Senior Faculty Fellow in the Sch ool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech where he has been a faculty member since 1993. Professor Realff’s overall research in terests are in process and sustainable systems engineering. His primary re search foci are process modeling for CO2 capture processes and biomolecula r systems engineering to produce biochemicals and biofuels. He is co-direc tor of the Georgia Tech center on Direct Air Capture – DirACC. He is a F ellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.\n \nPlease note: t here are limited spaces available for this event\, so please do come early if you wish to attend. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/213804/33rd-annual-roger-w -h-sargent-lecture/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0ae54f7d-218e-43af-ae70-87a503320508 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261203T180000 DTEND:20261203T190000 SUMMARY:Can We Have a World Without Pain? LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/world-pain CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c7591c0e-f6c2-49bd-9283-8a0b1ca17ee7 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261207T180000 DTEND:20261207T190000 SUMMARY:Offence and the Future of Courtesy LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/offence-courtesy CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2cd3da8e-2da9-467b-baa7-a3876cff78ce SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261208T180000 DTEND:20261208T190000 SUMMARY:Shakespeare Now: Creativity and Controversy LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/shakespeare-now CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7b05226c-35ea-4c43-bd65-e5996aa9a21e SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261208T183000 DTEND:20261208T193000 SUMMARY:See Christmas Differently LOCATION:The Royal Society: The Royal Society URL;VALUE=URI:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/12 /see-christmas-differently/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3a0add8a-a4a7-49fa-9e6c-75e2b9fc634d SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261209T173000 DTEND:20261209T183000 SUMMARY:The power of placebo LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre 200\, City and Guilds Building DESCRIPTION:What happens when a medical procedure is put to the placebo te st? \nProfessor Rasha Al-Lamee\, Clinical Professor of Cardiology at the N ational Heart and Lung Institute\, explores the surprising results of the first placebo-controlled trial of coronary stenting for angina\, the quest ions it raised about what drives symptom relief\, and how a negative clini cal trial led to positive changes. \nPlease register to attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance is available here. \nWe look for ward to seeing you on Wednesday 9 December!\nImperial Inaugurals are ter m-time lectures that celebrate our newest Professors\, recognising their a cademic journey and showcasing their research.\nAbstract\nWe hold drugs to the highest standard. Before a medicine reaches patients\, it must outper form placebo in a randomised controlled trial. Medical procedures have la rgely escaped that same scrutiny. When placebo-controlled trials of medic al procedures are performed\, the results are often unexpected. \nAngina is a symptom. It is subjective\, variable\, and shaped by what a patient e xpects will happen to them. It is therefore susceptible to the placebo eff ect when treated by drugs or procedures. Our group ran the first placebo-c ontrolled trial of coronary stenting for angina: ORBITA. The results were surprising and caused shockwaves across the global cardiology community. W hile the findings were not what many wanted to hear\, they led to a much w ider discussion about the value of placebo control and the impact that the se trials might have on medical practice.  \nFrom ORBITA came many more questions about angina. Which medications and procedures work best? What d rives symptom relief? How large are the placebo and physical components of our treatments? And importantly\, who benefits most?  \nDisappointing results and the acknowledgement of the placebo effect are not always a re ason to abandon procedures. They lead us to consider placebo a scientific phenomenon and an important part of the delivery of good medical care. Thi s is the story of how a negative clinical trial led to positive outcomes o n how we study the impact of medical procedures and where we place the mi nimum bar for new and established interventions. \nBiography\n\nProfesso r Rasha Al-Lamee is an Interventional Cardiology Consultant at Imperial Co llege Healthcare NHS Trust and Professor of Cardiology at the National Hea rt and Lung Institute within Imperial College London. She is a British Hea rt Foundation intermediate clinical research fellow and clinical trialist with expertise in stable coronary artery disease\, coronary intervention \, invasive physiology and invasive intravascular imaging. \n\n\n  \n \n\nShe leads a research group with a focus on clinical trials that impac t the care of patients with cardiovascular disease. She designed and led the only placebo-controlled trials of coronary angioplasty\, ORBITA and OR BITA-2\, published in The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine  respectively. She was also the chief investigator of the ORBITA-COSMIC t rial\, published in The Lancet\, ORBITA-STAR\, published in JACC and ORBIT A-FIRE\, published in Circulation. She led The Lancet commission on athero sclerotic heart disease\, is currently leading the ORBITA-MOON and ORBITA- SOLAR trials\, and is actively involved in the development and recruitme nt for many multi-centre international clinical trials. \n\n\n  \n\n\nS he is a deputy editor at JACC\, a deputy director and head of the second y ear of Medicine at Imperial College London and co-lead of the cardiovascul ar theme of the Imperial NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212834/the-power-of-placeb o/ CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3ff6c414-9995-4ef0-a068-ec45fd2d18d0 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261209T180000 DTEND:20261209T190000 SUMMARY:How to See the World As a Child Sees It LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/see-world CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f1a92820-763c-488e-bd37-6f48f2913aee SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261214T173000 DTEND:20261214T183000 SUMMARY:The Future of Medicine LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/future-medicine CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:da9e2cf7-6484-4c84-89fe-a8c2b5b7ae34 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20261216T180000 DTEND:20261216T190000 SUMMARY:The Maths of Christmas LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/maths-christmas CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cbe58922-c272-4f7f-b45e-997b4135edff SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20270113T180000 DTEND:20270113T190000 SUMMARY:Can Weight-Loss Medicines Cure Obesity? LOCATION:Gresham College: undefined URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/weight-loss-medicines CREATED:20261007T121914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2b4c40da-7a34-4763-9ef8-39f89550a674 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261007T121914 DTSTART:20270114T130000 DTEND:20270114T140000 SUMMARY:Can You Be Your Own Therapist? 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